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🧮 8th Grade · Math8.G.C.9Unit 8: Volume of cylinders, cones & spheres

Cylinders

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🎯 Objective: Students find the volume of cylinders.

Lesson outline

  1. Stack coins.
  2. V = πr²h.
  3. Practice.
  4. Exit: one cylinder.

Lesson 1 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

8.G.C.9

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 8 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Use the volume formulas for cylinders, cones and spheres

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

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More lessons in “Volume of cylinders, cones & spheres”

  1. Cylinders
  2. Cones
  3. Spheres

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