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Volume of right prisms
In this lesson, students learn to calculate the volume of any right prism by multiplying the area of the base times the height of the prism. They derive this formula by picturing the prism decomposed into identical layers 1 unit tall.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 8
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Student activities
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Area, volume and surface area
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M8M06
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P7) Understanding units of measurement (P10) Multiplicative strategies (P9)
- Publisher
- Illustrative Mathematics
- Copyright
- © Open Up Resources/Illustrative Mathematics. Creative Commons BY 4.0.
- Keywords
- area cylinder nets surface area
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