STATE OBJECTIVES

          The following are state curriculum objectives addressed in the unit lesson on surface area.

Standard: Uses specific problem-solving strategies such as guess and check; drawing a diagram or other representations of the problem; using tables, charts or graphs; working backwards; using problem reduction (converting to a related problem that is easier to solve); breaking the problem into manageable pieces and solving the separate parts individually; and uses estimation and approximation when appropriate.

Standard:  Recognizes and applies the problem-solving process:

-Identifies and formulates a problem based on a practical or laboratory situations

-Reaches a valid and supportable conclusion

-Judges the reasonableness of a proposed solution

Standard:  Applies the problem solving process to a wide variety of problems taken from the various technology/career preparatory areas

Standard:  Using a calculator, represents whole numbers, fractions, decimals, percents, and mixed numbers taken from practical data, and converts between the various representations

Standard:  Estimates answers by various techniques and compares calculator results with estimates to determine reasonableness

Standard:  Recognizes appropriate practical situations in which to use and to expect results with exact and approximate numbers

Standard:  Applies techniques of rounding

Standard:  Measures concrete objects using appropriate tools involving both metric and customary units to find length, weight, area, and volume

Standard:  Solves applied problems involving measurements

Standard:  Identifies items from real life that are commonly measured in metric, customary, or both systems of units, and recognizes the appropriately sized units to use.

Standard :  Identifies lines, angles, circles, polygons, cylinders, cones, rectangular solids, and spheres in everyday objects

Standard:  Calculates perimeter and area of plane figures; finds appropriate measures of objects and their models prior to such calculations for basic polygons and circles

Standard:  Calculates volume; lateral and surface area for cylinders, rectangular solids, cones, and spheres; and finds appropriate measures of objects and their models prior to such calculations