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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Using Models to Connect to and Understand Volume Formulas

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] The student will use models to develop formulas and connect them to the volume of prisms, spheres, cylinders, pyramids, and cones.
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That Quiz

That Quiz: Practice Test: Geometry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource allows users to test their geometry knowledge.
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Handout
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Faq, Geometric Figures

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page brings you to a table of contents of three-dimensional figures. Selecting a figure will bring you to a page defining and illustrating the figure with applicable formulas listed.
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Lesson Plan
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: The Cylinder Problem: High School Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Using an engaging approach, this lesson plan requires students to record the volume of cylinders as a function of the radius. Students will construct and measure the volume of several cylinders and then begin comparing these shapes.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Determining the Surface Area and Volume of Composite Figures

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Given a problem involving composite figures made from prisms, pyramids, spheres, cones, and/or cylinders, the student will find the surface area and volume of the composite figure.
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University of Waterloo (Canada)

University of Waterloo: Cemc: Math Circles: 3 D Geometry Ii [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This worksheet provides a variety of 3D geometry questions requiring higher order thinking skills. Questions include; finding the surface area of a prism, surface area of pyramid, surface area of a sphere, and platonic solids.
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Unit Plan
Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Solid Geometry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A complete reference guide to solid geometry. The mathematics resource provides definitions and interactive activities that enhance further explanation.
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Unit Plan
Cuemath

Cuemath: Cone

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Unit Plan
Cuemath

Cuemath: Sphere

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A comprehensive guide for learning all about spheres with definitions, properties, examples, and practice questions.
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Unit Plan
Cuemath

Cuemath: Tetrahedron

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A comprehensive guide for learning all about tetrahedrons with definitions, properties, formulas, examples, and practice questions.
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Activity
University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Constructing a Polyhedron

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students are given instructions on how to construct a paper, uniform polyhedron in the shape of a star ball. Animation is used to show the steps to make the star ball. There are also additional modules for other shapes and discussion...
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Activity
University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Constructing a Polyhedron

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students are given instructions on how to construct a paper, uniform polyhedron in the shape of a star ball. Animation is used to show the steps to make the star ball. There are also additional modules for other shapes and discussion...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Ed Online: Virtual Polyhedra

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students explore polyhedron's through technology and paper/ pencil constructions.
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Unit Plan
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Volume Equations for a Sphere and Pyramid

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site uses calculus to explain how the formulas for finding the volume of a sphere and a pyramid were derived.
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Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Egg Math: Spherical Geometry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains an experiment that demonstrates how transporting a tangent vector around a closed path on a sphere will cause it to come back twisted. [Requires Java.]
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Unit Plan
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Cone

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from MathWorld describes characteristics of cones, names of various special cones, equations for a cone and many other equations relative to a cone. [Requires Java.]
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Unit Plan
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Mathworld: Hexahedron

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn about hexahedrons and hexahedral graphs from MathWorld.
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Lesson Plan
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Los Poliedros Regulars Y La Esfera

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Interactive resources and activities dealing with properties and characteristic of the five polyhedrons and the sphere.
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eBook
Math Planet

Math Planet: Surface Area and Volume of Pyramids, Prisms, Cylinders, and Cones

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explanation of surface area and the volume of pyramids, prisms, cylinders, and cones through examples and a video lesson. [1:44]
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Activity
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Areas De Cuerpos Geometricos

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In Spanish. Interactive resources and activities that could be used in the classroom either as an introduction or review to a unit dealing with the area of three dimensional figures.
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Activity
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Volumenes De Cuerpos Geometricos

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In Spanish. Interactive resources and activities that could be used in the classroom either as an introduction or review to a unit dealing with the volume of three dimensional figures.
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eBook
Math Planet

Math Planet: Pre Algebra: Pyramids, Prisms, Cylinders and Cones

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Provides an explanation, examples, and video lessons all related to area and volume of pyramids, prisms, cylinders, and cones.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Mathematics: Online Study Tools: Surface Area of Prisms and Cylinders

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
This site gives a short interactive quiz which allows students to self-assess their understanding of the concept of finding the surface area of prisms and cylinders.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Mathematics: Online Study Tools: Volume of Pyramids and Cones

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site gives a short interactive quiz which allows students to self-assess their understanding of the concept of finding the volume of pyramids and cones.