Surface Area and Volume of Cuboids and Prisms Revision Videos

Examiners continually find new and creative ways to test your knowledge of volume and surface area. To be fully prepared to answer their questions, you should start with cuboids and prisms before moving onto more complex shapes. Take a look at these videos which explain the basics of surface area and volume.

The simplest shape to find the surface area of is a cube, here's a video showing how to do it!

There's more to finding the surface area of a cuboid than a cube as it can have three different sidelengths. Here's a video showing you the steps to working it out.

Here's a video using the net of the 3d shape to calculate the surface area of the prism.

Here's a video from Fuseschool showing you how to find the surface area of a cylinder.

In these videos Simon Deacon finds the volume of a cuboid, a cylinder and finally a triangular prism.