What Are Composite Figures?

Now that you have learned about a bunch of different figures, you can put them together to get new and exciting shapes! When you take a triangle and a square and put them together, you get a new shape.

Maybe you think the new figure looks a bit like a house. How many corners and edges does the new house-shaped figure have? Is there a shape you already know inside the figure? There are loads of shapes we can combine, just look at the composite figures below.

Circles, ellipses, triangles, squares, pentagons, hexagons, heptagons and octagons are all examples of flat shapes you should know. Here you can see an overview of them:

A flat composite figure is made up of two or more flat shapes. It is only your imagination that limits how fun your composite figure can be.