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Volume and Surface Area of Right Prisms (G)
In this volume and surface area worksheet, students find the volume and surface area of right prisms. Students complete 4 problems.
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Volume and Surface Area of Parallelogram Prisms (A)
In this volume and surface area activity, 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 (H)
In this volume and surface area worksheet, students find the volume and surface area of right prisms. Students complete 4 problems.
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Volume and Surface Area of Composite Right Prisms (F)
In this volume and surface area activity, students find the volume and surface area of composite right prisms. Students complete 4 problems.
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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 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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Surface Area and Volume
In this geometry worksheet, 10th graders determine the lateral area, surface area, and volume of pyramids and prisms. The one page worksheet contains five problems. Answers are not included.
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Calculating Surface Area
In this surface area worksheet, learners find the surface are of cubes and rectangular prisms. This one-page worksheet contains 3 problems.
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Surface Area
Students calculate the surface area of cubes, solids and cylinders. In this geometry lesson, students define the surface area formulas for different prisms. They calculate the surface area with 100%, and 80% accuracy.
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Surface Area and Volume
Students are introduced to the notion of surface area and volume. Students review surface area and volume by finding the area of a two-dimensional shape. They practice using the computer to create different surface area shapes.
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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...
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Measurement: Cylinders
Math scholars observe and demonstrate how to calculate the surface area and volume of cylinders. They analyze pictures of various cylinders on a handout, solve problems on two worksheets independently, and discuss the answers to the...
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Surface Area Formulas
In this geometry worksheet, students complete 21 problems where they find the surface area of pyramids, cubes, and rectangular prisms. This excellent worksheet would be an ideal quiz, or homework assignment.
Shodor Education Foundation
Surface Area of Rectangular Prism
With this interactive lesson plan, learners compute the surface area of rectangular prisms. They visit an online investigation applet and record data on the provided handout. Pair this lesson plan with the volume lesson plan by the same...
California Education Partners
Yum Yum Cereal
Design an efficient cereal box. Scholars use set volume criteria to design a cereal box by applying their knowledge of surface area to determine the cost to create the box. They then determine whether their designs will fit on shelves,...
101 Questions
File Cabinet
Take the resource out of the file cabinet. Young mathematicians estimate the number of sticky notes it would take to cover the surface area of a file cabinet. They answer a set of questions on how the number of sticky notes would change...
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...
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Volume and Surface Area of Rectangular Prisms and Cylinders
In this volume and surface area worksheet, students compute the volume and surface area of 8 shapes. Four shapes are rectangular prisms, four shapes are cylinders.
CCSS Math Activities
Smarter Balanced Sample Items: 6th Grade Math – Target H
Knowing the surface area certainly helps when deciding how much paint to buy before a project. Scholars solve for surface area, as well as volume and area, as part of the presentation from Grade 6 Claim 1 Item Slide Shows. Geometric...
Virginia Department of Education
Similar Solids and Proportional Reasoning
Double the dimensions, quadruple the surface area. Pairs build similar prisms and compare the ratios of their surface areas and volumes to the ratio of the heights. Given two similar cones, partners determine the ratios of the lateral...
Radford University
Building Sandcastles
Finalize the plans before playing in the sand. Learners design sandcastles using geometric and composite figures. They create blueprints, including the scale, and three-dimensional models of their castles. Finally, scholars calculate the...
Concord Consortium
Swimming Pool II
Combine geometry and algebra concepts to solve a modeling problem. Young scholars consider the effect surface area has on volume. They write a cubic function to model the possible volume given a specific surface area and then determine...
Radford University
Down on Sue's Farm
When would a farmer use math? Class members work through five tasks on a farm that require knowledge of surface area, volume, and determining regression equations. The challenges range from figuring out the amount of paint to buy,...
Annenberg Foundation
Geometry 3D Shapes: Test Your Skills
Time to find out what they've learned! The final lesson of a five-part series has learners complete a 39-question multiple choice review. They use what they've learned in the previous lessons to complete questions that include concepts...