Surface area activities

Wilcox's Way: 5 Expert Activities for Teaching Surface Area

Teaching Volume and Surface Area with Interactive Materials - 7 cool, interactive ways to teach nets, volume and surface area. Includes hands-on ideas, a video linking volume to surface area, math pennant activities, math word wall cards (including a free set for volume and surface area) and a Sierpinski Tetrahedron!

This blog post describes a series of 5 activities for teaching surface area and volume of rectangular and triangular prisms. Includes a free download of an activity for finding surface area of rectangular prisms.

Surface area is a such a fun topic to explore in the middle school math classroom! To really understand what surface area means, students need to interact with actual three-dimensional objects. Before we talk about the math formulas or how to calculate, we spend time discovering how to find surface area in our own ways. Read along to learn how I do it!

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That's right! ALL about NETS! I don't know about you but for some reason SURFACE AREA totally throws my kiddos for a loop. Like they have to find all the area of that whole big shape thing and it's just a lot sometimes. So FOUNDATIONS become really important. Especially laying a foundation for learning all about 3d shapes such as rectangular prisms, cylinders, triangular prisms, pyramids, and all that jazz. It's time to bring in boxes and rip them apart to see their net, pringles canisters…

Looking for an end of the year activity? Have students create a castle from geometric nets, count faces, edges & vertices, and then calculate the surface area and volume! Make it a competition to make this project PERFECTLY engaging for your students! #taylorjsmathmaterials #middleschoolmath #7thgrademath #8thgrademath #mathactivities #mathproject #surfacearea #volume #endoftheyearproject

This free surface area of pyramids and cones investigation is a great way to get kids thinking about area and learning geometry in a fun, hands-on way.

Last week we were learning about surface area in my three regular math classes (we did this earlier in my accelerated class). I had my accelerated students (in groups of three) make a net of a rectangular prism. They had to measure in inches or centimeters and label each edge of their net, they also labeled each face with the letters A-F). On a piece of looseleaf they had to give the area of each face and then give the surface area of the whole prism. Completed nets from my accelerated math…

Today has been crazy with creating three activities, coloring them, and taking pictures. Not to mention chasing around two little girls! A...

Surface area can be a very tricky concept for 7th grade minds. It has a lot of moving parts in it and sometimes it can feel like a little too too much. I feel like with this topic you really have to go back to finding area, and then work your way through a forest […]

Math lesson on calculating surface area by using the figure's net

An inquiry-based lesson approach to surface area: Students "dissect" the polyhedron and find the total area of all the "skin."

8 tips for teaching area and perimeter lessons to help you guide your students toward deeper area and perimeter understanding and mastery.

Make teaching students about finding the area more fun in the classroom with these five activities! Including area robots, area crowns, area dinosaurs, & more!

Area and perimeter are two of my favorite math concepts to teach. It's easy to have fun learning area and perimeter.

Surface Area Worksheet Surface Area Of Prisms Level

Are you wondering how to introduce area to your 3rd-grade students? Do you like teaching with manipulatives? This hands-on activity teaches kids the basics of area: unit squares, tiling & counting squares, & transitioning students to the multiplication model. Use building bricks to show your students how to find the area of rectangles & irregular shapes. Then, use the free worksheet to show them how to partition & tile shapes on paper and to find area of rectangles using multiplication.