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House Renovation

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COMBINED RATING

3.8 Stars

TEACHERS (50)

4.2

STUDENTS (7654)

3.5

LENGTH

14 Minutes

GRADES

6
7
8

CAPABILITIES

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Description

Help your client renovate their house by solving problems with surface area and volume for simple and complex geometric figures!

Vocabulary Words

area
volume
parallelogram
right angle
perpendicular
polygon
three-dimensional connection
parallel
plane
prism. rectangular prism
right prism

Instructions

Play through this interactive game to learn about Solve Problems With Area, Surface Area And Volume. Suitable for Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8.

Main Concepts

The formula for volume can be derived as length times width times height, or the area of the Base times the height (V = l x w x h or V = B x h).
Use Standard Units of Measure cubic cm, cubic in, cubic ft and any unit that the problem presents.
Recognize volume as an attribute of a solid figure.
A unit of volume, a cube with a side length of 1 unit, is called a unit cube.(MS)
Find volume or any of the edges by manipulating the formula for volume to find the other.
Find the total volume of solid figures composed of two or more triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, cubes and right prisms.
Find the surface area of two- and three- dimensional objects composed of triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, cubes and right prisms.
Find the area of two- and three- dimensional objects composed of triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, cubes and right prisms.
A Prism is a three-dimensional figure with a connection of two parallel planes with a polygon base.
A right rectangular prism has a polygon base and any cross section parallel to the base is a copy of the base and the connected planes are perpendicular.

Discussion Questions

Before the Game

How would we decide how much paint to buy if we wanted to paint one of the classroom walls? How would we measure how much water is in a swimming pool? What is the difference between finding the area of a rectangle and the surface area of a rectangular prism? What formulas do we use to find the area of an object? What makes a triangle a right triangle? How is total surface area different from area? How do you find the area of a parallelogram?

After the Game

How are area and volume related? Why do you think the game never asked you to find the area of a circle? How did dividing the wall into unit squares help you to find its area more easily? How did we manipulate the parallelogram to form a more similar shape to find its surface area? How do we find the height of a triangle when it is not a right triangle? What did you do to find the surface area of the irregularly shaped wall?

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Game Details

Difficulty

Content Integration

Lexile Level

705