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Discovering Volume Formulas
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- ereiser
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- STL
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- Free
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- Math
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- 173
Overview
This activity is for a geometry class. Students choose a 2-dimensional object and then discover the volume formulas for stacking copies of that object. They then are given a model that splits the cube into 3 pyramids. By looking at this model they come up with the pyramid volume formula.
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