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Surface Area and Volume

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Students are introduced to the notion of surface area and volume, learn the terminology used with surface area and volume and have experimented with the surface area and volume of different prisms.

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surface area, volume

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surface area, volume, math
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Grade
3rd - 4th
Subjects
Math
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