What you need to know
Check yourself against these “I can” statements.
- I can find the surface area of a cube
- I can use a net to find the surface area of a cuboid
- I can find the surface area of a cuboid without drawing a net
- I can find the surface area of shapes made from cuboids
Practise this topic
3 resources3D Solids: Plans, Elevations and Nets
Prisms (cube, cuboid, triangular, trapezoidal, L-shaped, pentagonal, hexagonal, octagonal), pyramids, cylinders, cones, spheres, hemispheres and the Platonic solids, with their dimensions: drag to turn, hidden edges dashed, the…
🧮 ToolFormula Sheet
Make a printable formula sheet: tick the shapes you want (2D area, perimeter and arc length, volume, surface area, and sector, arc and segment in radians), the eight circle theorems with diagrams, the GCSE formulae sheet…
🧮 ToolShape Formulas
Animated visual proofs of the area, volume and surface area formulae: drag the bar (or press Play) to turn each shape step by step into one whose area or volume we already know, with a caption for each step and the formula built…
These are the pages for Surface Area in the Year 7 scheme of work, following Pearson Edexcel Maths Progress Delta 1. Open this topic in Mr Wells Maths to see it alongside the rest of the course.