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Volume and Surface Area of Parallelogram Prisms (B)
For this volume and surface area worksheet, students find the volume and surface area of parallelogram prisms. Students complete 4 problems.
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Volume and Surface Area of Right Prisms (I)
In this right prisms instructional activity, students find the volume and surface area of the right prisms given to them. Students complete 4 problems.
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Volume and Surface Area of Trapezoid Prisms (D)
In this trapezoid prism worksheet, students find the volume and surface area of the trapezoid prisms. Students complete 4 problems.
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Volume and Surface Area of Triangular Prisms (B)
In this volume and surface area worksheet, students find the volume and surface area of triangular prisms. Students complete 6 problems.
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Volume and Surface Area of Triangular Prisms (C)
In this volume and surface area worksheet, students find the volume and surface area of triangular prisms. Students complete 6 problems.
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Volume and Surface Area of Cylinders (C)
In this volume and surface area worksheet, learners find the volume and surface area of cylinders. Students complete 6 problems total.
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Volume and Surface Area of Cylinders (A)
In this volume and surface area worksheet, students find the volume and surface area of cylinders. Students complete 6 problems on this worksheet.
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Volume and Surface Area of Cylinders (E)
In this volume and surface area worksheet, students find the volume and surface area of cylinders. Students complete 6 problems.
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Volume and Surface Area of Cylinders (F)
In this volume and surface area instructional activity, students find the volume and surface area of cylinders. Students complete 6 problems.
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Volume and Surface Area of Cylinders (B)
In this cylinders worksheet, students find the volume and surface area of the cylinders given. Students complete 6 problems total on this worksheet.
Utah Education Network (UEN)
Insides and Outsides
Give small groups handfuls of unit cubes and then dare them to build as many rectangular prisms as possible using only 12 cubes. This engaging activity serves as an introduction to the volume of solid figures. In addition to volume,...
Curated OER
Maximize It!
Students design a rectangular box without a lid that has the largest possible volume using the supplied sheet of centimeter graph paper. They work in groups to construct different size boxes to determine the largest possible volume and...
Teach Engineering
Boxed In and Wrapped Up
If cubes have the smallest surface area, why aren't there more cube-shaped packages? Scholars take a box in the shape of a rectangular prism, cut it up, and make new boxes in the shape of cubes with the same volume. They then brainstorm...
Virginia Department of Education
Out of the Box
There's no need to think outside the box for this one! Scholars measure the length, width, and height of various boxes. Results help develop the formulas for the surface area and volume of rectangular prisms.
Curated OER
Volume of Rectangular Prisms
Introduce the procedure needed to find the volume of a rectangular prism. Learners rank various prisms such as cereal boxes and tissue boxes from smallest to largest volume. They use an applet to find the volume and surface area of each...
Kentucky Educational Television
The Road to Proportional Reasoning
Just how big would it really be? Young mathematicians determine if different toys are proportional and if their scale is accurate. They solve problems relating scale along with volume and surface area using manipulatives. The last day of...
Discovery Education
Discovering Math: Exploring Geometry
Apply geometric properties and formulae for surface area and volume by constructing a three-dimensional model of a city. Learners use similar and congruent figures and transformations to create a city of at least 10 buildings. They trade...
Illustrative Mathematics
Painting a Barn
When painting a barn you have to calculate surface area, and that is exactly what this resource is about. Not only will your future home owners calculate the surface area, but also the cost. It is a real-life problem that every that...
Curated OER
Volume and Surface Area
In this volume and surface area activity, learners read about volume and area, then solve a set of problems arranged in increasing order of difficulty.
PBS
Surface Area and Volume
You and your class will like this lesson on using visual models to relate the volume and surface area of solid shapes. Learners construct three-dimensional forms using nets. They calculate the surface area and volume for each and then...
101 Questions
Dandy Candies
Package design is an economic necessity. Young scholars assume the role in an interesting inquiry-based lesson. Given 24 cubic shaped candies to package, they must determine the arrangement that uses the least amount of cardboard to...
Denton Independent School District
Build a Geome-Tree
Geometers construct a mobile or ornament using nets of three-dimensional polyhedrons. Not only do they need to compute the volume and surface area of each figure, they also earn points for creativity, neatness, and more!
Shodor Education Foundation
Triangle Area
While the lesson plan focuses on right triangles, this activity offers a great way to practice the area of all triangles through an interactive webpage. The activity begins with the class taking a square paper and cutting in in half; can...
Curated OER
Calculate Volume and Surface Area
In this volume and surface area instructional activity, students are given the volume of 4 figures and find the area. A web site reference is given for additional activities.