To understand how to find surface area or prisms, and to understand the formula for surface area itself.
This packet explains prisms and how to find their respective surface areas. A new terms slideshow, a derivation of the formula slideshow, and a couple of videos with examples lay out the lesson of surface areas of prisms.
Here are some new terms for this lesson.
This slideshow gives a visual of how we come to the surface area of a prism formula.
This video explains the concept of surface area and how to find the S.A. of prisms.
Here is a walkthrough of the answer from the problem given in the first video.