

6.G.4: Surface Area by Adding Faces
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Alecia Julian
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6.G.4: Surface Area by Adding Faces

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Goals for this activity
practice calculating surface area
review calculating area of rectangles and triangles
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You will need a calculator!
Open a new tab
Go to desmos.com/scientific
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Multiple Choice
Which shape could be folded up to form a cube?
A
B
C
D
E
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Multiple Select
Which shapes could be folded up to form pyramids?
A
B
C
D
E
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Multiple Choice
Which shape could be folded up to form a rectangular prism?
A
B
C
D
E
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Multiple Choice
Which shape could be folded up to form a triangular prism?
A
B
C
D
E
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Nets
When we unfold a 3D shape into its 2D version, the 2D version is called a net.
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Nets & Surface Area
We can use nets to calculate the surface area of a shape.
Nets are similar to the composite figures we looked at yesterday--funky shapes made up of more normal shapes.
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Multiple Choice
Find the area of the base of this rectangular pyramid (Shape A).
40 cm2
20 cm2
I'm not sure--help please!
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Multiple Choice
Find the area of the two triangles labeled as shape B
48 cm2
24 cm2
I'm not sure--help please!
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Multiple Choice
Find the area of the two triangles labeled as shape C
40 cm2
20 cm2
I'm not sure--help please!
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Multiple Select
Which expressions could we use to calculate the total surface area of the rectangular pyramid?
40 + 24 + 24 + 20 + 20
40 + 24 + 20
40 + 2(24) + 2(20)
40 x 24 x 20
I'm not sure--help please!
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Open Ended
Calculate the total surface area of the rectangular pyramid. Don't forget your units!
Once you have your answer, come back to Teams to compare with other answers.
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Multiple Choice
Calculate the area of rectangle A.
6 square cm
12 square cm
18 square cm
I'm not sure--help please!
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Multiple Choice
Calculate the area of rectangle B.
6 square cm
12 square cm
18 square cm
I'm not sure--help please!
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Multiple Choice
Calculate the area of rectangle C.
6 square cm
12 square cm
18 square cm
I'm not sure--help please!
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Multiple Choice
Calculate the surface area of the rectangular prism
36 square cm
72 square cm
66 square cm
I'm not sure--help please!
I got a different answer but I don't see it.
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Open Ended
Calculate the area of the triangle.
When you finish, come back to the Teams screen to check out other answers.
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Open Ended
The parallelogram has an area of 35 square units. What is the height?
When you finish, come back to the Teams screen to check out other answers.
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Open Ended
How are you feeling about your test tomorrow? Do you have any questions?
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