Problems include a mix of drawn shapes, dimensions given, and surface area situations in words. Using these two mazes, students solve a variety of surface area problems with rectangular and triangular prisms. (read more about how math mazes increase student motivation in this post). The added challenge of finding the right path to the finish line keeps students more engaged. For some reason, students are so much more willing (and get so much more practice) when problems are presented in a maze instead of a traditional worksheet. These two surface area mazes get students engaged in their math practice. Give this one a try and you’ll see your kids get excited about surface area. The biggest mistakes that my students make include not adding everything together and finding volume instead of surface area, so that’s something I keep an eye out for. As a teacher it gives you a great opportunity to see what the misconceptions are among your students. There’s just too much going on for them to keep track of it in their head.Īt the end of the activity students all have a funky looking penguin and a better understanding of solving for surface area. (One way to make checking a bit faster is to have them color their answer choice, quickly visually check it, and then let students color in their picture.) Some kids want to do all of the work without writing anything down and they really need to write down the steps. I have students complete their work on a whiteboard and have them check their work with me after each question until it is obvious that they get it. This works as a great practice for finding surface area on paper from a drawing. This activity features two coloring pages: a page of rectangular shapes and a page of triangular shapes. There’s something about being about to do a little coloring while practicing that gets kids engaged. Kids love this surface area coloring activity. I hope you enjoy looking at and choosing some activities that will fit right into your classroom. Also, you’ll see that some of them are for partner activities while others work for the whole class. Some of them are paper and pencil while others are done online. These activity ideas practice surface area in fun and engaging ways. Surface Area of Rectangular & Triangular Prisms Digital Escape Room
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For a deeper dive into how to teach surface area, check out the post How to Teach Surface Area Like a RockStar.
This post is all about ways to teach and practice finding surface area.
So, I focus just on surface area, and then we work on volume, careful to express the differences between them. They struggle to remember the difference between surface area and volume. You’ll find a variety of activities that you can utilize as learning activities during this unit of study, or as review activities later in the year.īy the time students get to my class, their second math lab class, they’re often discouraged or have misconceptions about surface area. This curated list has both activities using 3-D solids as well as practice on paper. The eleven thirteen activities in this post will help your students get that practice they need with surface area, in both the 2D and 3D worlds. I find that they just need a lot of practice and a clear transition from the real life learning to the drawings. To get them there, students need to see surface area in the 3-D realm and then we need to help them transfer everything to paper. When they take the final test on surface area, they have to really be able to conceptualize a three-dimensional idea in a two-dimensional drawing.
I work with a lot of students who don’t have a solid foundation with math and especially with spatial ideas. For my 7th graders, surface area usually is one of the hardest topics we do all year.
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