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L.O. To be able to 0
 Find the area of a rectangle
 Find the surface area of a cube or cuboid
 Find a length from a given surface area
Key Words
length, width, height, prism, cross-section, squared, cubed

Starter
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SURFACE AREA - PRISMS

Watch this video clip about this topic –
come back to it during the lesson if you need to

Surface Area of a Cuboid Video – Corbettmaths

www.corbettmaths.com/2013/03/29/surface-area-of-a-cuboid
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Prisms
 How many faces do these prisms have?
 What shapes are each of the faces?

 What shapes do you know how to find the area of?

 What are those formulae?
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Surface Area
 Decide how many faces your shape has
 List each face and its shape
 Use your knowledge of area to work out the area of each
face
 Add all these areas together
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Example
Here is the net of a 3 cm by 5 cm by 6 cm cuboid.
6 cm
Write down the
18 cm2
area of each
3 cm 3 cm
6 cm face.
Then add the
5 cm 15 cm2 30 cm2 15 cm2 30 cm2
areas together to
find the surface
area.
3 cm 18 cm2 3 cm
Surface Area = 126 cm2
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Your turn!
Use the net method to find the surface area of this cuboid
4cm

3cm 3cm

2cm 2cm

4cm
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Your turn!
Use the net method to find the surface area of this cuboid
4cm

3cm 12cm² 3cm

2cm 8cm² 2cm

4cm
6cm² 12cm²
6cm²

Total surface area 8cm²

= 52cm²
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Example

A cuboid has 6 faces.

The left
top hand
frontand
andthe
side
thebottom
back
and the
ofofthe
right
the
cuboidside
hand have
of the same
cuboidarea.
have
the same area.
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Task – Find the surface area of each cuboid 1 cm

m
1) 4m 2) 1 c
2m

2
2 7 cm 30 cm
3m 52 m

20 mm
3) 4) 4m
m
m

4m
10

2
15 mm 1300 mm 2
4m 96 m
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Task – Find the surface area of each of these shapes

1) 2) 3) 4)

5) 6) 7) 8)

9) 10) 11) 12)

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Volume and 114, 115, 119, 169, 170,
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Surface Area GRADE

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Volume and 114, 115, 119, 169, 170,
171, 172

Surface Area GRADE

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Volume and 114, 115, 119, 169, 170,
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Volume and 114, 115, 119, 169, 170,
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Surface Area GRADE

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Volume and 114, 115, 119, 169, 170,
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Volume and 114, 115, 119, 169, 170,
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Volume and 114, 115, 119, 169, 170,
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Volume and 114, 115, 119, 169, 170,
171, 172

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Volume and 114, 115, 119, 169, 170,
171, 172

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