Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

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

For Students 7th - 8th
[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.
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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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.
Handout
Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Cone

For Students 6th - 8th
Use this interactive tool to explore cones. Change the height and the radius to see how these affect the cone. There is also the option of making an oblique cone. Properties of a cone are discussed, how to use formulas to calculate the...
Interactive
Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Volume Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this online calculator to calculate the volume of geometric solids including a capsule, cone, frustum, cube, cylinder, hemisphere, pyramid, rectangular prism, sphere, and spherical cap.
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Mr. Martini's Classroom

Mr. Martini's Classroom: Volume: Geometry Practice Solving Volumes

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Students solve for the volume of three-dimensional figures such as cubes, prisms, and cylinders with these interactive flashcards.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Volume of Composite Figures: Lesson 5

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson will present how to apply the volume formulas of prisms, cylinders, pyramids, cones, spheres, and hemispheres to find the volume of composite figures. It is 5 of 6 in the series titled "Volume of Composite Figures."
Handout
Math Words

Math Words: Frustum of a Cone or Pyramid

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site defines a frustum and has links to related topics. The site offers the formula for the lateral area, volume, and total surface area of frustum of a cone.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Figure It Out

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is an Internet-based (online) and group discussion lesson. Students will learn the formulas for surface area and volume of cylinders and cones. Students should have previously learned how to determine the area for a circle; however,...
Interactive
Other

Calculator.net: Surface Area Calculator

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Use these calculator tools to find the surface area, in your choice of units, of a sphere, cone, cube, cylinder, rectangular prism, capsule, ball cap, conical frustum, ellipsoid, or square pyramid. Includes a reference section listing...
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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