Determine surface area verbal gt2e
Connect word problems, pictures, and the formula for the volume of a cylinder in this activity.
GT.2: Investigate 2D shapes and 3D solids:
- a. Draw and interpret scaled diagrams.
- b. Draw and interpret nets of rectangular solids, prisms, cylinders.
- c. Find perimeter, area of plane figures (discs, triangles, rectangles), operations involving π.
- d. Calculate volume (rectangular solids, cylinders, prisms, spheres), operations involving π.
- e. Determine surface area (rectangular solids, cylinders, prisms, spheres).
Putting It All Together
Answer these open ended questions on your own or with others to form deeper math connections.
When you increase the value of the radius, how does the volume change?
When you increase the value of the height, how does the volume change?
Which has a greater effect on the value of the volume: the radius or the height? Why?