Students will work in cooperative/collaborative groups to compare and contrast a two-dimensional pattern and a three-dimensional shape. Students will use a net to label and then construct a rectangular prism. Students will find the surface area of a rectangular prism. As a final performance task, students will create a message box.

The purpose of this task is to provide students an opportunity to use mathematics addressed in different standards in the same problem.

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team in partnership with the North Carolina Virtual Public Schools. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 6th Grade Math. 

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team in partnership with the North Carolina Virtual Public Schools. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 6th Grade Math. 

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team in partnership with the North Carolina Virtual Public Schools. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 6th Grade Math.  

In this lesson, students determine that a right rectangular prism has six faces: top and bottom, front and back, and two sides. They determine that surface area is obtained by adding the areas of all the faces and develop the formula SA = 2lw + 2lh + 2wh. Students develop and apply the formula for the surface area of a cube as SA = 6s2.

In this lesson, students describe rectangular regions that result from slicing a right rectangular prism by a plane perpendicular to one of the faces.

In this lesson, students describe polygonal regions that result from slicing a right rectangular prism or pyramid by a plane that is not necessarily parallel or perpendicular to a base.

In this lesson, students describe polygonal regions that result from slicing a right rectangular pyramid by a plane perpendicular to the base and by another plane parallel to the base.

Students must figure out how to make a cardboard box just big enough for 12 bottles.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach third graders about identifying and naming 3d figures.

In this lesson, students determine the surface area of three-dimensional figures in real-world contexts. Students choose appropriate formulas to solve real-life volume and surface area problems.

Students will get a hands-on experience with surface area using 3D pens and VR glasses. 

In this lesson, students construct three-dimensional figures through the use of nets. They determine which nets make specific solid figures and determine if nets can or cannot make a solid figure.