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Surface Area and Volume of a Pyramid

Today you will need:

  1. Notes
  2. Chromebook and calculator
  3. Positive Attitude! :-)

Grab a warm-up from the wooden desk

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Goals:

  • Find volumes of pyramids
  • Find surface areas of pyramids

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How do you know?

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Review

Calculate the total and lateral surface area for each shape.

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Cones and Pyramids

Based on what we know about Cavalieri’s Principle, what can we say about the volume of these two shapes?

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Pyramids

A pyramid is a polyhedron with a polygonal base and lateral faces. The faces are triangles and they meet at a common vertex.

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Surface area of a Pyramid

Find the surface area of the given pyramid.

What strategies did you use?

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Surface area of a Pyramid

Find the surface area of the given pyramid.

What strategies did you use?

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Surface area of a Pyramid

Find the surface area of the given pyramids. What strategies did you use?

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Volume of a Pyramid

We can derive the volume formula of a pyramid from the volume formula for a rectangular prism just like we derived the formula for area of a triangle using what we know about the area of a rectangle.

Area of a square = b*h

Area of a triangle = ½*b*h

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Volume of a Pyramid

Find the volume of the given pyramids.

What strategies did you use?

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Volume of a Pyramid

Find the volume of the given pyramids.

What strategies did you use?

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Tell me What you learned today?!

What I noticed…

What I wondered…

One connection I made was…

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Independent Practice:

G16: Perimeter, Volume, Surface Area

Skills

Video Links

Perimeter of Irregular Shapes

Area of Irregular Shapes

Volume of Rectangular Prism Visually

Volume of a Cylinder

Volume of Rectangular Prisms/Cylinders

Surface Area of a Cylinder

Surface Area of Rectangular Prisms

Volume of a Cone

Volume of a Pyramid

Surface Area of Square Pyramids

Volume of a Sphere (Level 1)

Delta Math G16: Perimeter, Volume, Surface Area

Delta Math Q4 Skill & Drill (due May 27)

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Resources

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Mod 8 Standards

G.MG.1 Use geometric shapes, their measures, and their properties to describe objects, e.g., modeling a tree trunk or a human torso as a cylinder.

G.MG.2 Apply concepts of density based on area and volume in modeling situations, e.g., persons per square mile, BTUs per cubic foot.

G.MG.3 Apply geometric methods to solve design problems, e.g., designing an object or structure to satisfy physical constraints or minimize cost; working with typographic grid systems based on ratios.

G.GMD.1 Given an informal argument for the formulas for the circumference of a circle, area of a circle, and volume of a cylinder, pyramid, and cone. Use dissection arguments, Cavalieri’s principle, and informal limit arguments.

G.GMD.3 Use volume formulas for cylinders, pyramids, cones, and spheres to solve problems.

G.GMD.4 Identify the shapes of two-dimensional cross-sections of three-dimensional objects, and identify three-dimensional objects generated by rotations of two-dimensional objects.

G.GMD.5 Understand how and when changes to the measures of a figure (lengths or angles) result in similar and non-similar figures.

G.GMD.6 When figures are similar, understand and apply the fact that when a figure is scaled by a factor of k, the effect on lengths, areas, and volumes is that they are multiplied by k, k^2, and k^3, respectively.