what is the difference between square meters and meters squared?

Question

Indeed is there a difference? between meters squared and square meters

Answer 1

ohh, yes theres a difference

try 2 meters squared and 2 square meters
2 meters squared is a square 2m by 2m, thats 4 square meters

Answer 2

Meter Squared

Answer 3

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Haha, that's completely wrong - there's a pretty big difference, so watch out. If you are talking about x meters squared, you are talking about a square with sides of length x - or, put another way, 'it's x by x meters'. You would say, for example, that my garden is 10 by 10 meters, or 10 meters squared. Square meters are different - it's the number of squares, one meter by one meter, that fit in the area. If you have 10 square meters, your garden could be 5 by 2, or 10 by 1. Or, in a number grid, 'meters squared' is the width and height of the grid, and square meters is the number of squares inside it. So basically, 10 meters squared = 100 square meters

Answer 4

When it comes down to a single metrw there is no difference,a square meter and a metre square is the same,but if you take 3 of those squares and place then end on end you will have 3 square metres ,however if you put them side by side so each side is 3 metres your total area would be 9 square metres

Answer 5

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what is the difference between square meters and meters squared?
Indeed is there a difference? between meters squared and square meters

Answer 6

I'm concerned that the top answers to this are all wrong. Students please refer to a maths website, rather than an answers forum.
For clarification eg a rectangle of sides 5m and 2m would have an area of 10m^2 or 10 sqm i.e
they are the same thing. Proper maths notaion you put m^2 but many people write sqm to avoid confusion. If you had a square of sides 10m, you could write 10^2 m^2 or 100 m^2. By this I mean that the raised 2 next to the number means the calculation still needs to be done. An m with a raised 2 does NOT mean you square it again. It just indicates it is an area measurement not a linear one. But like I say, don't take mine or yahoos word for it, go to a proper maths website.

Answer 7

"Squared" is both sides the same length eg 1x1, 2x2, 3x3 etc
So, 2 meters squared would be 4 squared meters

"Meters square" is total area covered in meters eg if it s 2 squared meters then it would be a rectangle that measures 1mx2m


If it s 100 "squared meters" then it would be 100x1m squares arranged in any shape you like,
Where as 100 meters squared would be a square that measured 100mX100m

Answer 8

i understand that 4 square meter 4x4 and its length is 4 or 4x4x4=64 square meter
and 4 meter square means only 4x4=16 square meter(not included length)

shahzad shahzada

Answer 9

There is indeed a difference.
Square metres refers to the total area measured; metres squared refers to the edge of one side.
So, for example, a square room which has sides of 5 metres each, would have an area of 5 meters squared - 5m x 5m - or of 25 square meters - 5 x 5 m²

square metres = m²
meters squared = (m)²

Answer 10

There is a difference.if I said this field is 100 square metres it would be literally 100 little squares measuring 1 metre by 1 metre, whereas if I said its a 100 metres squared it would be a lot bigger