Area Question Generator

Builds a sheet of area questions at the level you ask for, with the working and the answers hidden until you want them. Bases and parallel sides are chosen so that halving stays whole, so no answer needs rounding. Each question and its answer are computed directly, not guessed or approximated, so you can trust the number that gets revealed.

How many questions

Between 1 and 30. Ten fills a page.

Level

Seed (optional)

A word reproduces the same sheet, so a whole class can be given the identical set.

Gentle is squares and rectangles. Standard adds triangles and parallelograms; stretch adds trapeziums and compound shapes.

Paper size

Print size

Margin

Millimetres of blank edge, 5 to 40.

Turn the paper sideways

Room to answer in

How to print this, or save it as a PDF

There is no PDF to download, and there does not need to be. Open the print command in your browser and choose “Save as PDF” as the destination. The page addresses and dates a browser normally prints across the top and bottom are already kept off.
Set the scale to 100%, not “fit to page”. This sheet is already the exact size of the paper you chose, so anything that resizes it makes every measurement on it wrong.
Leave the paper size in the dialog set to the same one you chose here.

Your questions will appear here.

What this generator does

Generates area questions with answers, for rectangles, triangles, parallelograms, trapeziums and L-shapes. Every answer carries square units, because losing the units is where a substantial share of the marks go in this topic — and the sheet is checked for that before you see it.

How to use this tool

Choose a level and how many questions you want.
Press make questions and work through the sheet.
Show the answers to mark it, or show the working to see which formula each question needs.
Enter a seed word to rebuild the same sheet later.

Common use cases

Area practice at home or school
Quick geometry warm-ups
Self-testing before a maths quiz

Randomness and fairness

Dimensions are drawn with the browser's cryptographic random number generator within the level's range, then constrained: a triangle gets an even base and a trapezium gets parallel sides that sum to an even number, so halving never produces a fraction. A seed word rebuilds the same sheet later; it is there for reproducibility, not cryptographic strength, and a seeded sheet is deterministic rather than unpredictable.

For how randomness is produced across the whole site, see how Generate Random works.

Limitations and good to know

There are no diagrams. Each shape is described in words, which works on paper and in your head but is not the same as reading a measured drawing.
Circles are not included. A circle's area brings pi in, and every answer here is a whole number a pupil can check without a calculator.
The perpendicular height is always given directly. Questions that make you find the height first are a separate skill this does not cover.

Common mistakes

Using a slanted side as the height of a triangle: The height is the perpendicular distance to the base, not the length of the sloping edge. In a diagram it is usually the dashed line.
Forgetting to halve for a triangle: Base times height gives the surrounding rectangle. The triangle is half of it.