Do you know the formula to find the area of trapezoids, triangles, and parallelograms? How about the steps to find the volume of rectangular and triangular prisms? In chapter 9 and 10 in our math books, we learned how to do both of those things AND how to find the surface area of prisms and pyramids! First before we learned the formulas and steps to find area, volume, and surface area, we built the prisms hands out by folding a net into a prism! Then we memorized the formulas for area in a funny voice, like "base times height divided by 2!" in a Southern accent for area of a triangle. We also did a lot of hands on practice with real-life manipulatives in the shape of prisms. We found the volume and surface area of cereal boxes, tissue boxes, and even a Tolberone box! Too bad Ms. Bad didn't have a Tolberone for us to eat...we also played small group Kaboom to review! It was a blast!
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May 2018
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