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Surface area and volume of cylinder
This resource gives a dynamic, visual representation of the net of a cylinder and shows the various associated formulas for the surface area and volume.
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| Year level(s) | Year 9 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Concrete Representational Abstract model |
| Keywords | Surface area, Volume, Circumference, Pi, Radius, Diameter, Circle, Net, Cylinder |
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| Curriculum connections | Critical and creative thinking, Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Measurement |
| Topics | Area, volume and surface area |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M9M01
Solve problems involving the volume and surface area of right prisms and cylinders using appropriate units |
| Numeracy progression |
Understanding units of measurement (P9)
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| Organisation | GeoGebra |
| Copyright | © 2022 GeoGebra. Free-for-education material. |
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