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Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Rectangular Prism Calculator

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This site provides an online rectangular prism calculator. Using any three of the six attributes (length, width, height, surface area, volume or diagonal), students can calculate the other three attributes. The calculator allows students...
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PBS

Pbs: Volume of Right Rectangular Prisms

For Students 3rd - 5th
Learn how unit cubes can be used to model the solution for the volume of a 3D figure This video focuses on calculating the volume of a rectangular prism using the equation, length x width x height. This video was submitted through the...
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American Chemical Society

American Chemical Soc.: Best of Wonder Science: Measure Yourself in Metric [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Activities where students take turns measuring their height, the width of parts of the hand, and the distance jumped using metric units.
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University of North Carolina

A Dictionary of Units of Measurement

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains an extensive list of various units of measurement known internationally and across several disciplines. Unit symbols are also included.
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Purple Math

Purplemath: Geometric Formula Review

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Need to freshen up on your geometric formulas? This explanation focuses on some basic formulas that should be committed to memory such as area, volume, perimeter, and more.
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Mathworld: General Solid Geometry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page has links to general solid geometry topics, including depth, height, width, and length. A good introductory site into geometry.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Measurement Inches

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson plan for primary students gives students hands-on practice in using a ruler and understanding customary measurements, length and width in inches. Students also create simple one and two digit addition problems related to the...
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Purple Math

Purplemath: Geometry Word Problems: Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Introduces how to set up and solve simple geometric-figure word problems. Includes advice regarding formulas to memorize.