Surface Area
Description – Demonstrates the concept of surface area. Derives the surface area formulas for cubes, prisms, cylinders, pyramids, cones and spheres. Interactive explorations of cone and cylinder surface area.
Activities – Multimedia Tutorial
Objectives
- Understand how geometric surface area is defined
- Learn the concept of square units
- Learn the area of a prism
- Learn the area of a pyramid
- Learn the area of a cone and how to calculate
- Learn the area of a prism and how to calculate
- Learn the area of a cylinder and how to calculate
- Learn the area of a sphere and how to calculate
Tags
Solid Figure, surface area, volume
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