Area & Volume revision - 9th Oct 2008
Today’s lesson was focused on revision for the Unit 1 test on Wednesday 15th October.
These are the things you need to be able to do for the Area and Volume topic. The grade is in brackets.
- Find the area of a triangle, parallelogram, kite and trapezium (D)
- Find the area and perimeter of compound shapes (D)
- Calculate the circumference of a circle to an appropriate degree of accuracy (D)
- Find the perimeter of a semicircle (C)
- Calculate the area of a circle to an appropriate degree of accuracy (D)
- Find the area of a semicircle (C)
- Calculate volumes of triangular prisms, parallelogram-based prisms and cylinders (C)
- Convert between measures of volume (C)
- Solve problems involving surface areas of prisms and cylinders (C)
- Convert between measures of area (C)
- Calculate volumes of spheres and Cones (A)
- Calculate areas of sectors and segments (A)
- Calculate the length of arcs (A)
This list is taken from the Module 5 contents list on Mathsduck.
Below are some links to revision resources that may be useful for revision for the Area and Volume section.
Mymaths.co.uk lessons
Volume of spheres, cones and pyramids
Don’t forget you can use the online homework for practice too.
Video tutorials
These are direct links to relevant video tutorials.
Area and perimeter of circles (emaths.co.uk)
Geometry of a circle (mathcentre.ac.uk)
Download explanations document
You can 
download an explanation sheet as a Word document. This includes explanations of how to work out areas and volumes. Worked examples and some exam style questions for you to try.
Other resources
There are links to other revision resources on the Mathsduck GCSE revision page and don’t forget you can look at the blog posts from each lesson. To find the relevant posts use the tag cloud or search box on the right of this page or choose the Chapter 1 category.
Revision links for the other other 2 topics (sequences and polygons) will be posted shortly.
[...] are links to lots of revision resources for the Area and Volume topic in my previous post from today. Revision links for the Sequences and Polygons topics will be posted [...]