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Calculator.net: Surface Area Calculator

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Use these calculator tools to find the surface area, in your choice of units, of a sphere, cone, cube, cylinder, rectangular prism, capsule, ball cap, conical frustum, ellipsoid, or square pyramid. Includes a reference section listing...
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The Math League

The Math League: Surface Area

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial explains the concept of surface area, and then goes through multiple shapes offering the specific surface area formula for each one.
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University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Surface Area to Volume Ratio

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will investigate the relationship between surface area and volume and their application to the inner workings of real life organisms.
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Surface Area

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A good site explaining surface area. Scroll down the page for quick references to surface area formulas for fundamental geometric objects. The site has links to related topics.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Finding a Formula for the Surface Area of a Cone

For Students 9th - 10th
This video tutorial demonstrates how to find the formula for the surface area of a cone.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Estimating Measurements and Using Formulas: Surface Area

For Students 7th - 8th
Given application problems involving lateral or total surface area the student will estimate measurements and solve the problems.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Surface Area of Cylinders

For Students 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use a formula and given information to find the surface area of different cylinders.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Surface Area of Triangular Prisms

For Students 7th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use formulas to find the surface area of triangular prisms.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Surface Area and Volume of Cones

For Students 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use a formula and given information to find the surface area of cones and truncated cones.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Surface Area and Volume of Pyramids

For Students 7th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find the surface area of pyramids by using formulas
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Surface Area and Volume of Pyramids

For Students 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use a formula and given information to find the surface area of pyramids.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Nets and Surface Area

For Teachers 6th Standards
A conceptual understanding of finding surface area using nets instead of a formula.
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Other

Calculating the Surface Area of a Cone

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explains a method for finding the surface area of a cone. It has several plane geometry formulas.
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OER Commons

Oer Commons: Surface Area of Prisms

For Students 7th
Students will extend their knowledge of surface area and nets of rectangular prisms to generalize a formula for the surface area of any prism.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Surface Area of Rectangular Prisms

For Students 7th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find the surface area of rectangular prisms by using formulas
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Math2

Math2.org: Areas, Volumes, Surface Areas

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives formulas for the area, volume, and surface area of various shapes.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Area (Elementary)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson students will practice finding the area rectangular shapes and irregular shapes with right angles and understand why the area formula works for rectangular shapes.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: A Comprehensive Printable List of Geometry Formulas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Provides a list of area and perimeter formulas for two-dimensional shapes and volume and surface area formulas for three-dimensional solids.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Finding a Formula for the Surface Area of a Cone.: Lesson 4

For Students 7th - 8th
This lesson explains how to write a formula for the surface area of a cone. It is 4 of 5 in the series titled "Finding a Formula for the Surface Area of a Cone.."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Finding a Formula for the Surface Area of a Cone: Lesson 6

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson explains how to write a formula for the surface area of a cone.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Surface Area of Cylinders

For Students 7th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find the surface area of cylinders using formulas
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Surface Area of Prisms

For Students 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use a formula and given information to calculate the surface area of different prisms.
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Cool Math

Coolmath: Precalculus Basic Formulas to Know

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This CoolMath resource provides an introduction to some Precalculus formulas.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Simple Programs to Apply Formulas

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students learn how to write simple programs to evaluate formulas in several variables for lists of data. They apply these skills to the computation of areas, volumes and surface areas of familiar geometric solids.