Developing an understanding of surface area

Aaliyah is making cone shaped party hats. How much cardboard does Aaliyah need to make each hat? Is this an example of volume or surface area?

• Volume

• Surface Area

What is Surface Area?

• The space inside of an object

• The sum of all the areas of all the shapes that cover the surface area of the object

• Surface area is what you get when you boil unicorn tears

• How heavy an object is

What is surface area?

• Magic

• The capacity a 3-D shape holds

• The covering of the faces of a 3-D shape

• The sum of squares of a triangle

The sum of all the areas of the faces of a figure.

• Net

• Base

• Area

• Surface Area

Sara wanted to use a paper towel tube for her project. She needed to cover the tube with cloth first. Which of the following, would Sara be calculating?

• Area

• Volume

• Surface Area

• Perimeter

Which example requires you to find the surface area?

• Finding out how much water will fill a cylinder
• Finding out how much wrapping paper is needed to cover a present
• Finding the amount a container can hold
• Finding out how much wood is needed to build a fence in your back yard.

What is Surface Area?

• The space that is occupied by a two dimensional shape

• The distance around a two dimensional shape

• Area of all surfaces that make up a three dimensional figure

• How much space an object has

The icing glaze on the donuts represents...

• Surface Area

• Volume

• Circles

• Cubic Units

Surface Area of 3D shape is measured in _________ units.

• square

• cubic

• quadratic

• invisible

What is surface area?

• The distance around the outside of a two-dimensional figure

• The number of square units in a two-dimensional figure

• The number of cubic units needed to fill a three-dimensional figure.

• The sum of the areas of all surfaces on a three-dimensional figure