Essential Mathematics Year 9
Surface area of prisms and pyramids
Measurement
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This is another video in the Year 9 series looking at Using Units of Measurement and Measurement and Geometry. Having taken a look at finding the surface area of basic prisms, I now take some time to look at the surface area for more complex prisms and pyramids. There is a great story at the start of the video about camels ... but then I return to the subject at hand; looking at how to find the surface area of a prism. There are lots of worked examples used to explain the theory in a clear and easy to understand way.
Lesson chapters
- Introduction
- Learning Objectives
- Recap of past learning
- Something for the bucket list
- Camels split ... you know ...
- Back to pyramids ...
- Recap of finding the surface area of a prism
- Finding the surface area of a pyramid
- Example
- Gotchas
- Summary
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- Title Surface area of prisms and pyramids
- Section Measurement
- Course Essential Mathematics Year 9
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