Shows students all of the factors that a company considers when designing packaging for its products and uses nets to calculate the surface area and volume of rectangular prisms and cylinders.
Presents real-world problems that provide students in grades four through seven with strategies for measuring solids and polyhedrons, circles, surface areas of three-dimensional shapes, and the volume of rectangular prisms.
Describes how the size and shape of a product relates to its packaging size, why the display, advertisement, and marketing is important, and introduces the concepts of surface and volume.
