Cuemath
Cuemath: Cone
Learn all about the basic properties of a cone. This lesson targets the formula, volume, parts, and shapes of a cone and has interesting solved examples and practice questions.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Up and Down Stairs
Work with this cube problem and see if you can find a pattern. Then you can check your solution with solutions already submitted.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Cut the Cake
A math challenge where geometry, measurement, and problem solving meet. Explore the properties of three dimensional shapes when you discover how six friends can equally divide a nine inch square chocolate cake. A one page activity from...
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Square Pyramid Calculator
This online calculator will calculate the various properties of a square pyramid given 2 known variables. The square pyramid is a special case of a pyramid where the base is square. It is a regular pyramid with a square base.
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Prism
Use this interactive tool to explore prisms. Change the height and the shape of the base to see how these affect the prism. There are also several additional options, e.g., making it oblique or transparent. Properties of a prism are...
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.
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Circular Cylinder Calculator
This online calculator will calculate the various properties of a cylinder given 2 known values. It will also calculate those properties in terms of PI.
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Tube Calculator
This calculator will calculate the various properties of a tube, also called a pipe or hollow cylinder, given 3 known values from variables of radii, circumference, wall thickness and height.
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Conical Frustum Calculator
This online calculator will calculate the various properties of a conical frustum given the 2 radii and any 1 other known variable.
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Cone Calculator
This online calculator will calculate the various properties of a right circular cone given any 2 known variables.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Crystals I
From the Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE) program. A lesson plan in which students explore the properties of crystals. Includes a variety off hands-on activities. Great for stimulating an idea for a...
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Crystals
From the Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE) program. A lesson plan in which young scholars study and model crystal patterns, properties, and structures. Utilizes real samples of crystals and styrofoam balls.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Floaters and Sinkers
This lesson introduces young scholars to the important concept of density. The focus is on the more easily understood densities of solids, but students can also explore the densities of liquids and gases. Young scholars devise methods to...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Traveling Sound
Students explore how sound waves move through liquids, solids and gases in a series of simple sound energy experiments. Understanding the properties of sound and how sound waves travel helps engineers determine the best room shape and...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fifth Grade Science: Physical Science: Separating Mixtures
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses how mixtures of solids can be separated based on observable properties of their parts such as particle size, shape, color, and magnetic attraction.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Drawing Three Dimensional Figures
Get independent practice drawing three-dimensional figures. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
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...
Read Works
Read Works: Mix the Old With the New
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how cooking causes changes in matter. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.