How do you find the area if an object has more than four sides? Learners view an interesting video to learn how to determine the surface areas of rectangular prisms and pyramids. They see how to draw two-dimensional nets of the figures to help identify its surfaces.

Concepts

surface area, surface area of prisms, pyramids, nets

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Have the class find objects in the shapes of prisms and pyramids to calculate their surface areas
  

Classroom Considerations

• Scholars should be able to find areas of rectangles and triangles
• Knowledge of nets is helpful but not necessary
  

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Narrator is enthusiastic about the topic, which makes the video easier to watch
• Provides some additional practice problems for viewers to try on their own
  

Cons

• Does not show all steps of work
  

Common Core

6.G.A.4