πr2 x height = volume of a cylinder

Q: How do we find out the volume of a prism?

A: We find the area of one cross section (such as a face at either end) and multiply it by the height.

Here some of our budding mathematicians are tackling the formulae for volumes of cylinders, cuboids and triangular prisms.

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