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Find here an unlimited supply of free, printable worksheets for the volume and surface area of cubes & rectangular prisms, including with fractional edge lengths. You can control the number of problems, workspace, border around the problems, and more.

The problems include a picture of a prism with its dimensions, and ask for either its volume, surface area, or for the edge length of a cube. These worksheets are especially meant for grades 5 and 6 when students study volume of prisms, but certain types of problems you can create suit best grades 7-9.

You can also make problems where the volume or surface area is given along with some dimensions, and the students need to calculate either the volume or the surface area of the prism. These types of problems are meant for 7th-9th grade as they are more challenging and may require the use of an equation.


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Surface area and volume of rectangular prism worksheet

Find the volume or surface area of rectangular prisms (grade 5)

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Surface area and volume of rectangular prism worksheet

Problem solving: find the volume/
surface area/edge length of cube
(for 6th/7th grade)

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Surface area and volume of rectangular prism worksheet

Find the volume of a rectangular prism with fractional edge lengths, using fraction unit cubes (grade 6; halves, thirds, and fourths; the whole number part is max 3)

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Surface area and volume of rectangular prism worksheet

Find the volume of a rectangular prism with fractional edge lengths
(grade 6; challenge)

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Here are some more worksheets about volume and surface area (in html format).

  • Find the volume of a prism when its dimensions are given or edge length of a cube when its volume is given (grade 5; easy)
  • Find the volume or surface area of rectangular prisms (includes decimal numbers; grades 5-6)
  • Find the volume of a rectangular prism with fractional edge lengths (halves, thirds, and fourths; the whole number part is max 5; grade 6)
  • Problem solving: find the volume or surface area when either surface area or volume and some dimensions are given (for 8th/9th grade as you will need to solve an equation)

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Interactive 3-Dimensional Shapes (Solids)
With this interactive 3-D shape explorer, you can visualize and rotate the following solids: cube, cuboid (a.k.a rectangular prism), tetrahedron, square pyramid, octahedron, triangular prism, and cylinder. Drag the shape with the mouse to rotate it. See the net of each solid (click the button "unfold"). The activity allows students to easily count the number of faces, edges, and vertices of the solids.

Interactive Unit Cubes Tool
This unit cube activity helps students understand 3-dimensional space, visualize solids in it, and to understand the basic idea of volume. It's most useful for grades 3-5. You're given a shape made with unit cubes on the left and you need to build the same shape in the workarea on the right.


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How do you find the surface area and volume of a rectangular prism?

The surface area of a rectangular prism is the sum of the areas of each side, and the volume of a rectangular prism is its length times width times height.

How do you find the volume of a rectangular prism worksheet?

Multiply the length times width times height to determine the volume of each rectangular prism.

How do you find the surface area and volume of a prism?

To find the surface area of a prism (or any other geometric solid) we open the solid like a carton box and flatten it out to find all included geometric forms. To find the volume of a prism (it doesn't matter if it is rectangular or triangular) we multiply the area of the base, called the base area B, by the height h.