Mathematics Pacing Resource Document
6.GM.6
Standard: 6.GM.6: Construct right rectangular prisms from nets and use the nets to compute the surface area of prisms; apply this technique to solve realworld and other mathematical problems.
Teacher Background Information: Students learning Grade 6 mathematics standards build on their work with area in the previous grades by reasoning about
relationships among shapes to determine area, surface area, and volume. They find areas of right triangles, other triangles, and special quadrilaterals by
decomposing these shapes, rearranging or removing pieces, and relating the shapes to rectangles. Using these methods, student discuss, develop, and justify
formulas for areas of triangles and parallelograms. Students find areas of polygons and surface area they can determine. They reason about right rectangular
prisms with fractional side lengths to extend formulas for the volume of a right rectangular prism to fractional side lengths. They prepare for work on scale
drawings and constructions in Grade 7 mathematics by drawing polygons in the coordinate plane. Essential vocabulary for this standard includes: area, length,
net, polygon, quadrilateral, rectangle, surface area, three dimensional figure, triangle, and width.
Lesson Plans/Print Activities:
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Web-based Practice:
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http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/SurfaceAreaAnd
Volume/ Interactive Manipulative
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https://learnzillion.com/lessons/191-find-the-surface-area-of-arectangular-prism Find the surface area of a rectangular prism.
https://www.engageny.org/resource/grade-6-mathematics-module-5topic-d-lesson-16 Students construct nets of three-dimensional objects
using the measurements of a solid’s edges.
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https://learnzillion.com/lessons/192-find-the-surface-area-of-arectangular-prism-in-context Find the surface area of a
rectangular prism in context.
https://www.engageny.org/resource/grade-6-mathematics-module-5topic-d-lesson-17 Students use nets to determine the surface area of
three-dimensional figures.
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https://www.khanacademy.org/math/basic-geo/basic-geovolume-surface-area/basic-geo-surface-area/e/surface-area
Surface area using nets
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https://www.brainingcamp.com/legacy/content/concepts/surfac
e-area/manipulative.php Online Manipulative, Lesson,
Questions.
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http://www.onlinemathlearning.com/volume-games.html
Volume and Surface Area Games
https://www.engageny.org/resource/grade-6-mathematics-module-5topic-d-lesson-15 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.
https://www.engageny.org/resource/grade-6-mathematics-module-5topic-d-lesson-18 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.
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https://www.engageny.org/resource/grade-6-mathematics-module-5topic-d-lesson-19a Students apply the formulas for surface area and
volume to determine missing dimensions of aquariums and water level.
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https://www.engageny.org/resource/grade-6-mathematics-module-5topic-d-lesson-19 Students determine the surface area of threedimensional figures in real-world contexts.
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https://learnzillion.com/lesson_plans/216 Find the surface area of a
rectangular prism by decomposing its net into rectangles.
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https://learnzillion.com/lesson_plans/217 Find the surface area a cube
using its net and/or a formula.
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6.GM.6
Standard: 6.GM.6: Construct right rectangular prisms from nets and use the nets to compute the surface area of prisms; apply this technique to solve realworld and other mathematical problems.
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Readiness I
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Readiness II
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