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Geometry
Welcome to the guide on Shapes, Area, and Volume
Before you start: This is a longer lesson so feel free to skip over concepts you are already comfortable with
Basic concepts of shapes:
https://youtu.be/E_-3ulbtcLk (Properties of polygons)
https://youtu.be/CA5O69Fv9NY (Perimeter)
https://youtu.be/1k0G-Y41jRA (Classifying triangles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hftTj9RfuxM (Special right triangles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMba_aOEoIo (Finding the apothem)
Note: Try to watch this video to get a better understanding of apothems, uses basic trigonometry
REMEMBER: Regular polygons are equiangular and equilateral, meaning all their sides are the same length and all their angles are the same degree.
Area:
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/basic-geo/basic-geo-area-and-perimeter/area-formula-intuition/v/finding-missing-side-when-given-area-math-3rd-grade-khan-academy (Application: Finding the missing side of a rectangle given the area)
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/basic-geo/basic-geo-area-and-perimeter/parallelogram-area/v/intuition-for-area-of-a-parallelogram (Parallelograms)
https://www.varsitytutors.com/intermediate_geometry-help/how-to-find-the-area-of-a-pentagon (Pentagons)
https://www.varsitytutors.com/high_school_math-help/how-to-find-the-area-of-a-hexagon (Hexagons)
https://youtu.be/_e7j6rE7_Pg (Advanced: Irregular shapes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC2rMWzc-I8 (Area of a square using diagonals)
Note: Uses trigonometry
Volume and Surface Area:
https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/sphere-volume-area.html (Spheres-Formulas)
https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/cuboids-rectangular-prisms.html (Volume and surface area for cuboids, rectangular prisms, and cubes)
Note: How can you modify the formula to only fit cubes? Remember, all the sides of a cube are the same length.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PljECBkHQpg (Triangular prisms)
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/prealgebra/chapter/finding-the-volume-and-surface-area-of-a-cylinder/ (Cylinders)
https://youtu.be/aEpkAtf2L54 (Cylinders-Video)
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/calculate-volume-surface-area-cone/ (Cones)
https://youtu.be/JN3LhO0YXw8 (Cones-Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8wEnG4GURQ (Square and triangular pyramids)
Practice:
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/basic-geo/basic-geo-area-and-perimeter/quiz/basic-geo-area-and-perimeter-quiz-1?modal=1 (Area and perimeter of rectangles)
https://mathbitsnotebook.com/Geometry/Polygons/POpolygonAreaPractice.html (Area of polygons)
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/basic-geo/basic-geo-area-and-perimeter/area-trap-composite/e/area-of-quadrilaterals-and-polygons (Composite shapes)
https://www.ixl.com/math/geometry/surface-area-and-volume-review (Surface area and volume)
https://www.ixl.com/math/grade-7/surface-area-of-cubes-and-prisms (Surface area of cubes and prisms)
https://mathbitsnotebook.com/JuniorMath/AreaPerimeterVolume/APVsurfaceareaPractice.html (Surface Area)
https://www.ixl.com/math/grade-7/volume-of-cubes-and-prisms (Volumes of cubes and prisms)
https://www.math-aids.com/cgi/pdf_viewer_4.cgi?script_name=geometry_surfPrisPyr.pl&tri_prm=1&sq_prm=1&rect_prm=1&trap_prm=1&pent_prm=1&hex_prm=1&sq_pyr=1&rect_pyr=1&tri_pyr=1&pent_pyr=1&hex_pyr=1&inch=1&feet=1&yard=1¢i=1&milli=1&language=0&memo=&answer=1&x=120&y=-1 (Surface area of prisms and pyramids)
https://cdn.kutasoftware.com/Worksheets/Geo/10-Surface%20Area%20of%20Prisms%20and%20Cylinders.pdf (Surface area of prisms and cylinders)
https://www.math-drills.com/measurement/cones_volume_surfacearea_whole_001.pdf?v=1427309164 (Surface area and volume of cones)
https://cdn.kutasoftware.com/Worksheets/Geo/10-Spheres.pdf (Surface area and volume of spheres)
https://cdn.kutasoftware.com/Worksheets/Geo/10-Volume%20of%20Pyramids%20and%20Cones.pdf (Volume of pyramids and cones)
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