How Do You Find the Surface Area of a Sphere?

How Do You Find the Surface Area of a Sphere?

Note:

Trying to find the surface area of a sphere? Already know the radius? Then plug that value into the formula for the surface area of a sphere and solve to get the answer! This tutorial shows you how!

Keywords:

  • sphere
  • surface area
  • cylinder
  • relationship between cylinder and sphere

Background Tutorials

  • select tools, including real objects, manipulatives, paper and pencil, and technology as appropriate, and techniques, including mental math, estimation, and number sense as appropriate, to solve problems

      • What's the Order of Operations?What's the Order of Operations?

      What's the Order of Operations?

      Check out this tutorial where you'll see exactly what order you need to follow when you simplify expressions. You'll also see what happens when you don't follow these rules, and you'll find out why order of operations is so important!

  • use a problem-solving model that incorporates analyzing given information, formulating a plan or strategy, determining a solution, justifying the solution, and evaluating the problem-solving process and the reasonableness of the solution

      • What's an Irrational Number?What's an Irrational Number?

      What's an Irrational Number?

      Is an irrational number just a way to describe a number that's lost its mind? Not really. :) An irrational number is simply a number that cannot be written as a fraction. Check out the definition, learn an important property of these special numbers, and take a look at some examples of irrational numbers.

Further Exploration

  • Apply the formulas for the total and lateral surface area of three-dimensional figures, including prisms, pyramids, cones, cylinders, spheres, and composite figures, to solve problems using appropriate units of measure