Find the volume of the triangular prism shown below. Figur…

Find the volume of the triangular prism shown below. Figure long description (click to reveal) Front and back faces are right triangles with hypotenuse length of 13 ft and long leg length of 11 ft.  The remaining base is on the long side of a rectangle with the opposite side labeled 7 ft and one of the adjacent sides labeled 4 ft.  

Select the models below that could be used to help students…

Select the models below that could be used to help students realize that the circumference of a circle is a little more than three times the diameter.   Figure A long description (click to reveal) Blue square with red circle inscribed inside.  Green hexagon inscribed inside the circle.   Figure B long description (click to reveal) Circle with rope filling it cut and peeled down to make a triangle.   Figure C long description (click to reveal) Circle cut into three different size sections that are arranged to make parallelograms.   Figure D long description (click to reveal) Circle with three different lengths equal to each other around outside and another little segment completing the perimeter of the circle.