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MathModule 5: Area, Surface Area, and Volume
In module 5, students use their understanding of the areas of rectangles to develop formulas for the area of a parallelogram and the area of a triangle. Students apply their prior knowledge of area, equivalent numerical expressions, the properties of operations, and coordinate graphing as they find the areas of composite polygons and trapezoids. They identify attributes of the faces of right prisms and pyramids and use the net of a solid to determine its surface area. By packing right rectangular prisms with cubes of fractional edge lengths, students determine that the formulas V=lwh and V=Bh can be applied to find the volume of any right rectangular prism with positive, rational number edge lengths. Students apply these formulas to solve real-world and mathematical problems, and they write and solve single-variable equations to determine unknown measurements of a prism. Per district guidelines, students may use a calculator throughout this unit. |
ScienceEarth History
In Earth History, students read evidence from rock, landforms, and fossils to tell the geological story of a place |