Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Area of Polygons and Circles
How would you find the area of a polygon or circle? Explore this concept with engaging activities at this test prep site. Here you will find detailed problem solving strategies with accompanying visuals, a reference table with formulas,...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Area Explorations
In this lesson students will practice finding the area of irregular shapes with right angles and understand that there are different methods for calculating area.
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Surface Area Calculator
Online calculator to calculate the surface area of geometric solids including a capsule, cone, frustum, cube, cylinder, hemisphere, pyramid, rectangular prism, sphere, spherical cap, and triangular prism
Ducksters
Ducksters: Kids Math: Finding the Volume and Surface Area of a Sphere
Kids learn how to find the volume and surface area of a sphere. Formulas used for this shape. Example math problems.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Area Calculator
The resource consists of a tool to investigate the area of a variety of shapes. It could also be useful when calculating the surface area of each face of a 3D solid, and then adding them together.
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Surface Area, Volume, and Nets
Investigate the concepts of area, volume, 3D shapes, and nets using this interactive Learn Alberta math. The solid shapes focused on this exploration include rectangular and triangular prisms, rectangular and triangular pyramids,...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Shape Changing With the Cyber Squad
In this project, you will make 2-dimensional templates, called nets, that fold up into 3-dimensional (3-D) shapes. By making shapes of different sizes, you will be able to see how 3-D shapes change with size. In your findings you will...
Math2
Math2.org: Areas, Volumes, Surface Areas
This site gives formulas for the area, volume, and surface area of various shapes.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Kids Math: How to Find Surface Area
Learn how to find the surface area of various shapes square, rectangle, and triangle on this website.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Surface Area and Volume Test
[Free Registration/Login Required] This test may be given in classes learning about volume and surface area of rectangular prisms, cylinders, and cones.
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: Texas Area Estimate
Drawings and discussion of several methods to estimate the area of an irregular shape, like the state of Texas.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Boxed in and Wrapped Up
Students find the volume and surface area of a rectangular box (e.g., a cereal box), and then figure out how to convert that box into a new, cubical box having the same volume as the original. As they construct the new, cube-shaped box...
Cuemath
Cuemath: Prism
Explore the world of prisms in this mini-lesson by learning what are prisms, definitions with shapes and examples, the difference between regular, irregular, right, and oblique prisms, the surface area of a prism, and the volume of a...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Give Me a Hand or Leaf Me Alone
In this activity, students' find the surface area of geometric shapes cut from card paper and relate it to its mass. They use this data to find the surface area of irregularly shaped objects.
Science Struck
Science Struck: A Comprehensive Printable List of Geometry Formulas
Provides a list of area and perimeter formulas for two-dimensional shapes and volume and surface area formulas for three-dimensional solids.
Other
Specialist Schools and Academies Trust: Learn Ar: Maths: 3 D Objects
A learning resource that incorporates augmented reality (AR), using a camera, where students explore the volume and surface area of 3-D figures. The home page for this site has a PDF resource that explains how AR works and provides...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Setting the Stage With Geometry
Learners will learn and reinforce skills for measuring perimeter and area of 2D shapes and measuring surface area and volume of 3D shapes.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G Mg Hexagonal Pattern of Beehives
Beehives are made of walls, each of the same size, enclosing small hexagonal cells where honey and pollen are stored and bees are raised. This problem examines some of the mathematical advantages of the hexagonal tiling in a beehive....
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.
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...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: New Boxes From Old
Students find the volume and surface area of a rectangular box (e.g., a cereal box), and then figure out how to convert that box into a new, cubical box having the same volume as the original. As they construct the new, cube-shaped box...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G Mg How Thick Is a Soda Can? Variation I
For this task, learners are given the dimensions of a soda can and are asked to estimate its thickness. They must first find the surface area and the volume of aluminum. Aligns with G-MG.A.1 and G-MG.A.2.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The Bigger the Better?
In this activity, students calculate the surface area and volume of different shaped cell models. They develop an understanding of the differences in cells and their function
Texas A&M University
Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Beginning Algebra: Formulas
This tutorial will show you how using formulas can help you solve problems. Include formulas for various geometric shapes and steps showing how to use them.