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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.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 9
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Measurement
- Topic
- Area, volume and surface area
- Audience
- Teachers
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M9M01
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding units of measurement (P9)
- Publisher
- GeoGebra
- Copyright
- © 2022 GeoGebra. Free-for-education material.
- Keywords
- circumference pi (Ï€) radius diameter circle
- Other terms
- reasoning GeoGebra
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