Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Determining Surface Area With Unit Blocks

Subject Area

Mathematics

Grade(s)

6

Overview

Use your spatial reasoning skills to calculate the surface area when given a 3D figure. This video focuses on a right rectangular prism and shows you how unit blocks can help you visualize, then calculate the surface area. 

    Mathematics (2019) Grade(s): 6

    MA19.6.27

    Determine the surface area of three-dimensional figures by representing them with nets composed of rectangles and triangles to solve real-world and mathematical problems.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:MA19.6.27

    Vocabulary

    • Nets
    • Surface area
    • Rectangular prism
    • Triangular prism
    • Square pyramid
    • Rectangular pyramid
    • Triangular pyramid

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Measurable attributes of objects, specifically area and surface area.
    • Strategies for representing the surface area of a 3-D shape as a 2-D net.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Communicate the relationships between rectangular models of area and multiplication problems.
    • Model the surface area of 3-D shapes using 2-D nets.
    • Accurately measure and compute area of triangles and rectangles.
    • Strategically and fluently choose and apply strategies for finding surface areas of 3-D figures.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Area is additive.
    • Surface area of a 3-D shape is represented by the sum of the areas of the faces of the object.
    • Models represent measurable attributes of objects and help to solve problems.
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    Audio/Video

    Resource Provider

    PBS
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