Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Comparing Volumes With Unit Cubes
In this exercise, students practice comparing volumes with unit cubes. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.
Science Struck
Science Struck: How to Find Volume With Water Displacement Method
Tells the story of how Archimedes discovered the Archimedes Principle and his water displacement method for determining the volume and density of an object. Provides an explanation and several examples of how it is done.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Practice With Applied Solids
A seven-question quiz will help you practice answering questions dealing with the volume and area of solids.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Mathopolis: Volume and Surface Area of Prisms
Practice finding the surface area and volume of some three-dimensional prisms.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Volume of a Rectangular Prism
Find out how to find the volume of a prism, and follow up with some practice problems.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: States of Matter
Students act as chemical engineers and use LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robotics to record temperatures and learn about the three states of matter. Properties of matter can be measured in various ways, including volume, mass, density and...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Volume Units
This lesson introduces the units of distance (cubed units) used to describe volume. Students watch a video tutorial and then can take an online quiz.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: The Cylinder Problem: High School Lesson
Using an engaging approach, this lesson requires students to record the volume of cylinders as a function of the radius. Students will construct and measure the volume of several cylinders and then begin comparing these shapes.
Science Struck
Science Struck: A Comprehensive Printable List of Geometry Formulas
Provides a list of area and perimeter formulas for two-dimensional shapes and volume and surface area formulas for three-dimensional solids.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Math Challenges for Families
Students, teachers, and parents alike will enjoy this challenging math site. It contains a clever brain teaser section plus creative problems related to algebra, geometry, measurement, numbers, statistics, and probability. A Spanish...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Practice With Solids
Quiz your knowledge of three-dimensional figures, specifically volume and surface area, with this sixteen-question practice exercise.
PBS
Pbs: Black Kingdoms of the Nile
A geometry lesson that examines the history and structure of ancient pyramids and engages students in constructing pyramid models. A comprehensive lesson that considers students with diverse learning styles. Math concepts introduced...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: The Cylinder Problem: Middle School Lesson
This lesson offers an interesting, hands-on experience for middle school students studying cylinders. Students will create cylinders, and measure and compare their volumes.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Prisms and Cylinders Tutorial
Explore the similarities between the volume of a cylinder and a prism.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G Gmd, G Mg Tennis Balls in a Can
In this task, students investigate the volume of tennis balls and their cylindrical container, the empty space around the balls, different ways of slicing them, and what their visualizations will look like. Aligns with G-GMD.B.4 and...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Faq, Geometric Figures
This page brings you to a table of contents of three-dimensional figures. Selecting a figure will bring you to a page defining and illustrating the figure with applicable formulas listed.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Simple Programs to Apply Formulas
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.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: New Boxes From Old
Students find the volume and surface area of a rectangular box (e.g., a cereal box), and then figure out how to convert that box into a new, cubical box having the same volume as the original. As they construct the new, cube-shaped box...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 8.g Glasses
In this task, 8th graders are presented with a drawing of three glasses of different shapes and their measurements. They are asked to make several calculations that require the application of the Pythagorean Theorem and volume formulas....
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Riksjas, Toek Toek: Time and Capacity
Students will find capacity of objects and practice telling time to the half-hour while playing learning games.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Magnetic Fields Matter
This lesson introduces students to the effects of magnetic fields in matter addressing permanent magnets, diamagnetism, paramagnetism, ferromagnetism, and magnetization. First students must compare the magnetic field of a solenoid to the...
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Capsule Calculator
This online calculator will calculate the various properties of a capsule given any 2 known variables including radius r, side length a, surface area S, volume V and circumference C.
Other
Specialist Schools and Academies Trust: Learn Ar: Maths: 3 D Objects
A learning resource that incorporates augmented reality (AR), using a camera, where students explore the volume and surface area of 3-D figures. The home page for this site has a PDF resource that explains how AR works and provides...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Souper Scooper
This hands-on, inquiry based lesson is an extension of the AMSTI Science Module, Solids and Liquids. Students use nonstandard units to measure beans in a soup mix. Students predict how many beans will be in a scoop. Students group beans...