A guide to support parents as they work with their students with area, surface area, and volume problems.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept teaches students to calculate the surface area and volume of a cone.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept teaches students how to calculate the surface area and volume of prisms.

Students find the approximate surface area and volume of an apple, measuring circumference 3 ways, using the mean of the measurements to find the radius. Each students enters the results in a Table on the board.

This site explains a method for finding the surface area of a cone. It has several plane geometry formulas.

Practice finding the surface area and volume of some three-dimensional prisms.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept teaches students to calculate surface area and volume of pyramids.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept teaches students to calculate the surface area and volume of cylinders.

Students will extend their knowledge of surface area and nets of rectangular prisms to generalize a formula for the surface area of any prism.

This lesson teaches students how to find the surface area of rectangular prisms.

This instructional activity teaches students how to find the surface area of non-rectangular prisms.

Twenty-five problems cover the topics of volume of solids and surface area. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of the problem then click the "View Solution" button to...

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

In this exercise, students practice finding the surface area of 3D objects. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide looks at the definitions and postulates of surface area and volume for different solids, including composite solids and similar solids.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find the surface area of cylinders using formulas

[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.

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.."

Surface area is introduced in this video lesson. The tutorial provides a definition and several examples of surface area.

This lesson explains how to write a formula for the surface area of a cone.

Practice solving for the surface area of a cylinder using given values, and solve to find values for variables.

Surface area of pyramids is explored in this video resource. The lesson includes three detailed examples using a square, hexagonal, and triangular pyramid.

This video tutorial demonstrates how to calculate the surface area of two pyramids.

This site walks through how to find the surface area of a torus given its parametric equation. The site gives wonderful visual aids to help the reader understand the steps. Follow the link to the following page for a summary.