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The volume of a cylinder

Calculate the volume of a cylinder, and compare and contrast the formula for volume of a cylinder with the formula for volume of a prism.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 9
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource, Student task
Format	Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Explicit teaching
Keywords	Surface area, Volume, Circumference, Pi, Radius, Radius, Diameter, Circle, Net, Cylinder
Curriculum alignment
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)
Copyright details
Organisation	Illustrative Mathematics
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