Lesson: Volumes of Pyramids Mathematics • Second Year of Secondary School

In this lesson, we will learn how to find the volume of a pyramid and solve problems including real-life situations.

Lesson Plan

Students will be able to

recall the formula for the volume of a pyramid,
find the volume of a pyramid with known side lengths (where the height of the pyramid can be calculated) when the pyramid base is one of the following:
- a triangle,
- a quadrilateral,
- a regular polygon with more than 4 sides (pentagon, hexagon, etc.),
- an arbitrary polygon with a given area,
calculate a missing length of a pyramid when given its volume,
use knowledge of the volume of a pyramid to solve problems presented as real-life systems.