Day 112: Surface Area of Three-Dimensional Shapes

Students in Math 6 today extended their work from Friday with nets to begin calculating surface area for three-dimensional shapes. Two of the shapes that students are expected to calculate the surface area for include: rectangular prisms and triangular prisms.

In Math 6+, students discussed faces, edges, and vertices of three-dimensional shapes. Students then worked with calculating surface area for: rectangular prisms, triangular prisms, and cylinders. 

Today's lesson objective(s):

• Represent three-dimensional figures using nets made up of rectangles and triangles. 
• Use the nets to find the surface area of these figures. 
• Apply these techniques in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.