Quia
Ixl Learning: What Is Surface Area?
Brush up on your math skills relating to surface area then try some practice problems to test your understanding.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Eureka Math Parent Guide: Area, Surface Area, and Volume Problems
A guide to support parents as they work with their students with area, surface area, and volume problems.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Exploring the Distributive Property
Sixth graders will use area models and expressions to help build a solid foundation of how the distributive property works.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Tea Store: 3 D Shapes and Symmetry
In this tea store, the boxes all have different shapes! What do you know about shapes?
NumberNut
Number Nut: Shapes, Symbols and Colors: Three Dimensional Shapes
Describes the basic three-dimensional figures students will encounter in elementary Math and in the world around them, and makes mention of a few unusual ones.
NumberNut
Number Nut: Shapes, Symbols, and Colors: 3 D Shapes
This lesson describes three dimensional shapes and provides two interactive practice activities.
Other
Polyhedra: The Five Platonic Solids
A brief site that includes some activities to understand the figures.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Polyhedra Nets Paper
Contains six examples of polyhedra nets (cube, tetrahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, cubosctahedron).
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Solid Geometry
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains notes, information, and practice finding surface area and volume of cubes and prisms.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Solids
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flip chart, students apply geometric sense by using the properties of two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes to solve mathematical problems involving area and volume.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Soma Cube
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart, students use the drawing tools in Activstudio to create three dimensional shapes using interactive cubes.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Surface Area
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students learn how to find surface area of rectangular and triangular solids.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Polyhedra
Find a quick, concise explanation of what a polyhedra is. Examples are given and clearly explained.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Geometry Solid Figures
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses plane figures and solid figures.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Skeleton Shapes
At this one page website a variety of polyhedra are shown. The challenge is to create the skeleton for each polyhedron and identify the needed materials. You can check your solution right at the website.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Christmas Presents
Improve your logic and net recognition skills with this learning game. Solution included.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Making Boxes
Have fun and learn by making a box and then find out its maximum volume as well as other problem-solving activities, including making a table of your results and drawing a graph.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Making Cuboids
How many different cuboids can you make? Learn how and learn how to represent data with your results.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Basic Geometry: Surface Area
The geometry resource investigates surface area. Formulas, examples, and practice exercises are included.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Nets
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart, students explore geometric sense by interacting with plane diagrams that create a three-dimensional shape.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Three Dimensional Figures
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart describes the characteristics of polyhedrons and asks students to classify figures according to the number of vertices, faces, and bases of the figures.
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: Inter Math: Polyhedron
The polyhedron is defined and illustrated. Links provided for related terms, everyday examples, challenging problems, more information. There is also an interactive checkpoint involving polyhedrons.
Other
Nearpod: Represent Three Dimensional Figures With Nets
In this math activity, students will practice and strengthen their ability to express a sum using the distributive property by completing example problems with a Draw It activity.