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Volume of 3-Dimensional Shapes

This video resource from Teachers TV is presented by Fran and Dave, who demonstrate practical applications of mathematics as they show how to calculate the volume of cylinders and prisms.

Graphics are used to demonstrate how to work out the volume of a cuboid, cylinder and prism. A problem is posed which...

Volume of a Tetrahedron

The coordinates of the vertices of a tetrahedron is given. The challenge is to work out the volume of the tetrahedron. This involves calculating the area of the base,...

Volume: Counting Stars

This video, from Twig World, begins by asking how do astronomers estimate the number of stars in the night sky. To explain how it is done, a method of calculating the number of grains of sand on a beach is shown. The same principles are used to estimate the number of stars in the sky.

The video is...

Volumes of Revolution

This collection of interactive excel sheets investigate volumes of revolution by integration.

The first sheet plots the function y= ax^2...

This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.

This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.

This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes the latest publications from UK educational publishers.

This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.

This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection...

For more than five hundred years the West has been powered by the impulse to explore, to push into a wider world, and to seek newer ones. In this book, we come to see Voyager as the successor to the greatest exploration efforts of the West, as the author traces the links from Magellan, Cortes, and Columbus through...