Area and Surface Area A

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Area and surface area A | NSW Curriculum Website

• MA5-ARE-C-01 solves problems involving the surface area of right prisms and practical problems involving the area of composite shapes and solids

📖 Prior Knowledge

Content	Prior knowledge	Used for
Right-angled Triangles	- calculating side lengths of right-angled triangles	- calculating surface area of triangular prisms
Area	- calculating areas of plane shapes	- calculating surface area
Volume	- 3D shapes	- distinguishing between volume and surface area of 3D solids
Equations A	- solving multistep equations	- solving problems involving surface area

Solve problems involving areas and surface areas.pdf

• Solve practical problems involving the areas of composite shapes
• Identify the edge lengths and the faces making up the surface area of prisms
• Recognise and justify whether a diagram represents a net of a right prism
• Create and rearrange nets of right prisms
• Find the surface areas of prisms, given their nets, excluding curved surfaces
• Solve problems involving surface areas of prisms, excluding curved surfaces

Develop and apply the formula for surface areas of cylinders.pdf

• Recognise the curved surface of a cylinder as a rectangle and apply this knowledge to calculate the area of the curved surface
• Develop and apply the formula to find the surface area of a closed cylinder: $A=2\pi r^2+2\pi rh$, where $r$ is the length of the radius and ℎ is the perpendicular height

Solve problems involving surface areas of cylinders and related composite solids.pdf

• Solve problems involving surface areas of cylinders and related composite solids