Calculating the Volume of Prisms

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Learning Intention: The purpose of this unit of work is for students to understand how to calculate the volume of prisms.

Success Criteria: You will make appropriate measurements of a prism and be able to calculate the volume of that three dimensional shape. For example, measure the circumference of a water tank and calculate how many litres it holds or the radius of a silo and calculate the volume of grain it contains.

Your homework this week is to take a photograph of an object (tank, container, silo, fridge, filing cabinet) and measure the height, width, depth, length, radius or circumference (whichever is appropriate for that object) and record those measurements on the photograph, as I have done above. If you don’t have a camera or webcam, you can use a creative commons image available on the internet. You can use ‘Paint” to add the text to your image and save it as a ‘jpeg’ file. Then email your image so I can compile the pictures in a “Voicethread” or “Powerpoint” file.

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