Surface Area: Pyramids & Cones

Lesson Prep

Lesson Details

• Duration: 50 minutes

• Learning Goal: Build understanding of how to calculate the total and lateral surface area of pyramids and cones.

Classwork

• Estimation – Area 2

• Warm Up

• Notes

• Spiraling Practice

Standards

Common Core

• 7.G.B.6 – Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, volume and surface area of two- and three-dimensional objects composed of triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, cubes, and right prisms.

TEKS

• G.11(C) – apply the formulas for the total and lateral surface area of three dimensional figures, including prisms, pyramids, cones, cylinders, spheres, and composite figures, to solve problems using appropriate units of measure