Surface Area of Right Prisms
Students will calculate the surface area of right prisms by finding the sum of the areas of all their faces.
Key Questions
- Differentiate between volume and surface area in terms of what they measure.
- Construct a net of a prism to help visualize and calculate its surface area.
- Analyze how changing one dimension of a prism affects its surface area.
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