Area and prism generator

An interactive geogebra applet that generates most shapes of interest including…

==>triangles
==>squares
==>rectangles
==>parallelograms
==>trapeziums
==>regular…pentagons,hexagons,heptagons,octagons,nonagons,decagons
==>circles

…at the press of a button (use the slider to change shape). Good for use with an interactive whiteboard to practice finding the area. This can then be converted into a prism using the ‘add layer’ button so that students can form the links betweeen area and volume. Keep adding layers to generate the prism or use the ‘generate prism’ button to generate a random depth prism. Each layer can be dragged away from the prism to justify mutliplying by the depth.

You either need geogebra installed on your machine or use the web link to use the resource within a web browser without the need to install geogebra.