Volume of Cylinders Spheres and Cones

Looking for a fun interactive pi day math activity for finding the volume of cones, cylinders and spheres? Well bingo! Look no further as Geometry Volume of Cones, Cylinders and Spheres 8th Grade Math Game Puzzles, for CCSS 8.G.9, will serve as an exciting lesson plan for middle school classrooms. This is a great resource to incorporate into your unit as a guided math center rotation, review exercise, small group work, morning work, remediation, intervention or rti. It can also be used as a quiz, drill, test, or assessment tool to help determine student mastery of the learning target. Whether a student is homeschooled or given this task as a homework assignment, kids will love working on these for distance learning at home to study and improve their skills.

This puzzle set includes 24 colorful jigsaw puzzles, answer key, and an optional station instruction page with an example. These come as pdf printable sheets that can be printed on card stock and laminated for long-term use. As a suggestion, store them in a sealable gallon storage bag and place them in a foldable bin or tub for students to use throughout the year for enrichment when they finish early. Another idea, for a craft project, is students can glue the completed puzzles into a spiral notebook or journal as a model reference sheet. They can also be glued on a poster for displaying on a bulletin board or as a wall anchor chart.

It covers identifying the correct formula to use based on the picture of the given 3D shape and then finding the volume from a given radius and height. By matching the picture with the formula to solve the problem, students can sort, scoot and match the puzzle pieces to gain confidence in an important and sometimes challenging skill. Your students will love to practice and develop strategies for calculating the volume of cylinders, cones and spheres!

I hope you download and enjoy this engaging hands-on manipulative activity with your students! So set those worksheets aside and give our puzzles a try!

Relevant Grade 8 Common Core Standard 8.G.C.9
Know the formulas for the volumes of cones, cylinders, and spheres and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
Cross Reference: Texas TEKS 8.7A