More Complicated Prisms

Students extend the work they did in Lesson 10 to calculate the volume of more complicated prisms. They use a variety of strategies to determine the areas of complicated bases, including decomposing into more familiar shapes or surrounding and subtracting (MP7).

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Learning goals: Learning Goals • Calculate the volume of a prism with a complicated base using a variety of area strategies, including decomposing into more familiar shapes or surrounding and subtracting.