Students will learn how to find the volume of prisms and cylinders. Students should already know how to find the volume of right rectangular prisms. Students will learn the volume of a prism is the product of the area of its front face and its depth. Here's a good lesson. Here's an interesting problem where the Pythagorean theorem is used to determine the height of a cylinder before finding its volume.
Conclude by giving your students these challenges:
- Consecutive Negative Numbers by NRICH
- Triangles in a Square by NRICH
- Not So Little X by NRICH
- 2004 AMC 8, Problem 18
- Buying a Book by Pierce School: Problem / Solution