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This page brings together ready-to-teach volume and surface area maths lessons for Key Stage 3 and GCSE / IGCSE. Browse the full collection, including prisms, cylinders, cones, pyramids and frustums, spheres and hemispheres, nets and composite solids, and investigations linking surface area to volume, with each lesson designed to support clear modelling, independent practice and exam preparation.
Pull-up nets to introduce surface area
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These Key Stage 3 volume and surface area lessons build understanding through nets, cross-sectional reasoning and standard formulae for common prisms and cylinders. Topics include:
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These GCSE / IGCSE volume and surface area lessons extend to pyramids, cones, spheres and more demanding prism work, including answers in decimals and multiples of \(\pi\) where appropriate. Topics include:
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