Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Chapter 8.5 Volume of Pyramids GEOMETRY

And Good Evening everyone,
Today we are moving onto Volume of Pyramids. 
Just like volume of prisms, volume of pyramids is the space inside the 3-D figure.  Remember a prism maybe a cereal box and the volume of the box is the cereal inside??? Well, we have much the same with pyramids, but DIFFERENT! What is that difference????? This is a question you need to think about.

 Pyramids are named by the base shape (polygon).  So you could have a square pyramid if the base is a square- what would you call a pyramid with a triangle base? 
 The height of the pyramid is always from the tip of the vertex to the base and it forms a right angle. So be aware of looking for the height from inside the pyramid.  
The shortcut - formula - is volume= 1/3 BH  -
 why would it be that?

To think about this, you may recall that a triangular prism is half of a rectangular prism- so....


A Pyramid of GIRLS! 
Emma,Izzy, Elisabeth,Mariah,Isis,Georgia!

Homework: 8.5 VOLUME -Read the blog, take notes in your Reference Spirals and watch the videos on VOLUME of Pyramids!!!

As always in MATH,
Mrs M

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