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Curated OER

Volume and Surface Area of Rectangular Prisms and Cylinders

For Students 8th - 10th
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.
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Curated OER

Perimeter, Circumference, Volume, and Surface Area

For Students 8th - 11th
In this Perimeter, Circumference, Volume, and Surface Area worksheet, students are asked to identify geometric formulas and calculate for volume and surface area for geometric solids.  In addition, students are asked to identify...
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Curated OER

Maximize It!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students design a rectangular box without a lid that has the largest possible volume using the supplied sheet of centimeter graph paper. They work in groups to construct different size boxes to determine the largest possible volume and...
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Curated OER

Area, Surface Area and Volume of 3-D Shapes

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Math whizzes examine the relationship between area and volume and the relationship between a 3-D shape and its surface area. Following discussion and practice, pupils participate in a project in which they design packaging for a new...
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Teach Engineering

Boxed In and Wrapped Up

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
If cubes have the smallest surface area, why aren't there more cube-shaped packages? Scholars take a box in the shape of a rectangular prism, cut it up, and make new boxes in the shape of cubes with the same volume. They then brainstorm...
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Virginia Department of Education

Out of the Box

For Teachers 6th Standards
There's no need to think outside the box for this one! Scholars measure the length, width, and height of various boxes. Results help develop the formulas for the surface area and volume of rectangular prisms.
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Curated OER

Decomposing Rectangular Solids

For Students 7th - 8th
In this surface area and volume worksheet, students solve and complete 3 different decomposing rectangular solids. First, they use the given formulas for surface area and volume to calculate the measurements of each of the illustrated...
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Curated OER

Calculate Volume and Surface Area

For Students 8th - 10th
In this geometry skills worksheet, students solve 4 problems that require them to calculate volume and surface area of geometric figures. In 2 problems students work backwards to calculate length.
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National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network

Learning About Surface Area and Volume

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Plan a dinner party. Using a book by Marilyn Burns as a context, pupils learn about the relationships between area and perimeter and surface area and volume. The hands-on activities have learners rearrange tables and cut up meatballs to...
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Curated OER

Volume and Surface Area

For Students 10th
In this volume and surface area learning exercise, 10th graders solve and complete 12 different types of problems. First, they find the volume and total surface area of a given circle. Then, students find the height and radius of a...
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Curated OER

Volume and Surface Area

For Students 10th
In this volume and surface area worksheet, 10th graders solve and complete 12 different types of problems. First, they find the volume of an isosceles trapezoid. Then, students find the volume and total surface area of a sphere. They...
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Curated OER

Volume of Rectangular Prisms

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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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Curated OER

The Luxor Hotel Contract

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers determine the surface area of the Luxor Hotel, using the square feet of the base, volume, and the volume formula. They create a scale model of the triangular/pyramid shaped hotel.
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Kentucky Educational Television

The Road to Proportional Reasoning

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Just how big would it really be? Young mathematicians determine if different toys are proportional and if their scale is accurate. They solve problems relating scale along with volume and surface area using manipulatives. The last day of...
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Discovery Education

Discovering Math: Exploring Geometry

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Apply geometric properties and formulae for surface area and volume by constructing a three-dimensional model of a city. Learners use similar and congruent figures and transformations to create a city of at least 10 buildings. They trade...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Painting a Barn

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
When painting a barn you have to calculate surface area, and that is exactly what this resource is about. Not only will your future home owners calculate the surface area, but also the cost. It is a real-life problem that every that...
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Curated OER

Volume and Surface Area

For Students 5th - 6th
In this volume and surface area worksheet, students read about volume and area, then solve a set of problems arranged in increasing order of difficulty.
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PBS

Surface Area and Volume

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
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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Curated OER

Effect on Surface Area and Volume

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Young scholars identify the effect the change of dimensions causes for the volume and surface area. In this geometry lesson, students compare perimeter, area and volume as they play around with the dimensions of the polygons. They...
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Curated OER

Surface Area and Volume

For Students 8th - 10th
Accompanying the lesson at www.shodor.org, this worksheet present learners with a series of questions about the volume and surface area of a rectangular prism and a triangular prism. Students predict how these values would change if the...
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Activity
101 Questions

Dandy Candies

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Package design is an economic necessity. Young scholars assume the role in an interesting inquiry-based lesson. Given 24 cubic shaped candies to package, they must determine the arrangement that uses the least amount of cardboard to...
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Activity
Illustrative Mathematics

Ice Cream Cone

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Every pupil with a sweet tooth will be clamoring for this lab and analysis, particularly when they're allowed to eat the results! Volume and surface area formulas for cones are developed from models, and then extended to the printing of...
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Curated OER

Measurement: Cylinders

For Teachers 8th - 10th
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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Denton Independent School District

Build a Geome-Tree

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Geometers construct a mobile or ornament using nets of three-dimensional polyhedrons. Not only do they need to compute the volume and surface area of each figure, they also earn points for creativity, neatness, and more!

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