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Surface area of prisms

Learning objects Surface area of prisms

TLF ID M012146

This is a five-page HTML resource about solving problems concerning surface areas of prisms. It contains one video and five questions, two of which are interactive. The resource discusses and explains solving problems involving determining surface areas of prisms to reinforce students' understanding.

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Educational value
  • This resource is valuable for students who are learning or revising how to determine the surface areas of prisms. The resource is specifically designed to aid students' understanding of surface area.
  • It is also most useful in relation to the year 9 content description in the mathematics curriculum that refers to solving problems involving the surface area and volume of right prisms.
  • The resource may be useful in helping students achieve that element of the year 9 achievement standard referring to calculating areas of shapes, and volume and surface areas of right prisms and cylinders. It may also be relevant in relation to the learning continuum of the numeracy general capability that includes choosing and using a range of strategies (including mental and written strategies and digital technologies) in calculations to solve complex problems in authentic situations.
Year level

9

Topics Surface area Right prisms
Learning area
  • Mathematics

Other details

Contributors
  • Contributor
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
  • Organization: Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
  • URL: http://www.amsi.org.au/
  • Publisher
  • Name: Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
  • Organization: Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
  • Description: Publisher
  • URL: http://www.amsi.org.au/
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
Access profile
  • Generic
Learning Resource Type
  • Interactive
Rights
  • © Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute except where indicated otherwise. This material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0) licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/. ‘Website’ image: © Education Services Australia Limited 2012. You may use, reproduce and communicate this image for non-commercial educational purposes provided you retain all acknowledgements associated with the image.