Surface Area Growing Post

This is a MAJOR blog assignment.  Please make sure you do a good job completing it.

Surface Area Growing Post

Title Surface Area Growing Post

Labels growingpost, surfacearea

Rectangular Prism

• Draw a Rectangular Prism
• Draw its net.
• List all measurements on the drawing and on the net.
• What formulas do you use to calculate surface area?
• Calculate our the surface are of your rectangular prism.

Triangular Prism

• Draw a Triangular Prism
• Draw its net.
• List all measurements on the drawing and on the net.
• What formulas do you use to calculate surface area?
• Calculate our the surface are of your triangular prism.

Cylinder

• Draw a Cylinder Prism
• Draw its net.
• List all measurements on the drawing and on the net.
• What formulas do you use to calculate surface area?
• Calculate our the surface are of your cylinder prism.

Create a video with up to 2 other people explaining how to calculate surface area of the Rectangular and Triangular Prisms and the Cylinder.

Here are some images to use in your post.

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

More information to come later. This is enough to get you started.

Have fun :)

Please add your videos to your percent scribes.

In class we have been using ustream to capture movies of your percent work. Please add them to your percent scribes. Here is how you do it. Please go to either

Charbeck

or

spmath at ustream. When you find your video please get the embed code and copy it.

When you are putting the videos at your post please remember to switch to edit html from composer.  You should title your video after you paste it into your post.  Each post should have 2 videos in it.

There is a problem with the code from ustream.  TO MAKE IT WORK YOU HAVE TO ADD SOMETHING TO IT.....
At the end of he code you have pasted into your blog add


This will make the video play in your blog post.

Thanks.  This will be the last blog assignment for the 2nd term.

Here are todays notes in mini lesson format.

Correcting Question 1

Correcting Question 2

Correcting Question 3 and beyond

Some mini lessons on Converting Fractions, Decimals and Percents

Here are the mini lessons from class today. They are screen captures.  Click the image an you will arrive at ustream and the lesson will begin.
Converting Fraction to Percent using Decimals.

Converting Percents to Fractions

 Converting Decimal to Fractions using Percents

Hope they are helpful.  Tomorrow it is your turn.  You get to be the one on camera.

Todays smartboard tv

Here is the stream from todays class. It should help with your division questions.

Here is something different

Here is a demonstration of how to use a ratio table to divide fractions. It was a screen capture from the smartboard.