DETAILED LESSON PLAN IN MATHEMATICS 6

I. Objectives
At the end of the lesson the students are expected to:
 Recall the formulas of pyramids
 Answer the total surface area and volume of the regular square pyramid shown
 Participate in the example shown about pyramids

II. Subject Matter

Topic: Find the surface area of the Pyramids
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Materials: number and labels card,cartolina , spatial figures , powerpoin

III. Procedure
Teacher’s Activity Learner’s Activity
A. Preminary Activities

1. Prayer
- Everybody stand up. Lead the prayer Ms. In the name of the father and of the son
Mabeth and of the holy spirit…..AMEN.

2. Greetings
- Goodmorning class. Goodmorning teacher, goodmorning
classmates.

Before you take your seats kindly pick up the The learners pick up the trashes and put
trashes you can see inside the classroom and in the trash bins
put in the trash bins.

After a minute…

- You may now take your seats class.

3. Checking of attendance
- Before anythingelse, secretary who’s
absent today? None ma’am
- Okay good to know that

4. Review
- Okay class, what was our topic last
It’s all about prisms ma’am
meeting?
It is a solid shape that is bound on all its
 - Prisms means? sides by plane faces ma’am

- Very good!

B. Motivation
Okay class, before we proceed on our
discussion let’s have motivation first

I have square pyramid here and 3 numbers

each number have questions and all you
need to do is answer the question.
yes ma’am
- Is that clear?
- Very good so who wants to pick a
number? Come here in front then read and
answer the question

ma’am
- Okay pick a number then read and answer
the question Number 1 ma’am!
- What is the shape of the base of
the pyramid
- Triangle ma’am

Ma’am
- Very good! Next..
Number 3 ma’am
- Okay pick a number - What is the shape of each face?
- 4 Triangular faces ma’am

- Good job! Next.. Ma’am

Number 2 ma’am
- What is the shape of each space?
- all lateral faces are triangles
ma’am
- Very good!

C. Presentation
 Surface Areas of Pyramids
Pyramids are 3D geometric shapes or solid
objectives, where the base is a polygon and all
other faces called lateral faces , are triangles that
meet at the apex, or vertex.

A pyramid can also have other polygons as its

base, like a pentagon or a hexagon, but we will
focus on pyramids with triangular or rectangular
bases. Additionally, we will assume the following
symmetry in our pyramids.

Right and Regular Pyramids

Right Pyramids – a right pyramid is a pyramid

whose perpendicular height meets the base at its
center (or centroid). In other words, the apex of a
right pyramid is located directly above the center
of the base. A regular pyramid is a right pyramid
whose base is a regular polygon.

Regular Pyramids - All lateral faces of a regular

pyramid are congruent triangles.

This property is a statement of rotational

symmetries of a regular pyramid. Using the
perpendicular height of the pyramid as the
rotational axis, we see that this property tells us
that a regular pyramid has a rotation symmetry
where the order of the symmetry is equal to the
number of vertices of the base.

To find the total surface area of a pyramid, we

need to sum the area of the base and the areas of
the lateral faces. Often, it is helpful to visualize
these areas by drawing the net of a pyramid. For
instance, the net of a square pyramid is given
below.
From this net, we can find a useful formula for the
area of a lateral face.

Lateral and Total Surface Areas

The area of each lateral face is given by

1
𝐴=lateral face = =
2

base side length × slant height.

The lateral surface area of a pyramid is the total

surface area of only the lateral sides of the
pyramid—that is, of the triangular faces that meet
at the
apex.

The total surface area of a pyramid is the sum of

the areas of its lateral sides and the area of its
base.

Example 1: Finding the Lateral Surface Area

of a Pyramid

If the given figure was folded into a square

pyramid, determine its lateral surface area.

In this
example, we are given the net of a square
pyramid, and we are given the base length, 14
cm,and slant height, 15 cm.The lateral faces of a
pyramid are the triangular faces of the pyramid
that meet at the apex. In the given net, these are
the four triangles surrounding the square base.
Therefore, the lateral surface area of this pyramid
is the total area of the four triangles.

Recall that the lateral faces of a (regular) square

pyramid are congruent. Hence, we can first
compute the area of one of these triangles and
then multiply this area by 4 to obtain the total area
of the four triangles. The area of each triangular
face is given by

In the
previous
example,
we

computed the lateral surface area of a regular

square pyramid by using the property that the
lateral faces are congruent. We can compute the
total surface area of the square pyramid by adding
the area of the base to the lateral area. This means

In our next

example, we will find the total surface area of a

square pyramid by drawing a net.

Example 2: Finding the Total Surface Area of

a Square Pyramid given the Side Length of the
Base and the Slant Height

Find the surface area of the given square pyramid.

The surface area of a pyramid is the sum of the

area of the square base and the areas of the lateral
faces, which are the triangular faces meeting at
the apex. We recall that the lateral faces of a
(regular) square pyramid are congruent triangles.
We can better visualize the surface area by
drawing a net of the given pyramid.

From the net, we can note that

Since the four lateral faces are congruent, we can

obtain the lateral area by multiplying the area of
one face by 4:

The base of this pyramid is a square with side

length 22 m,so

Summing these two areas, we obtain

Hence, the surface area of the given square
pyramid is 1 540 m2.

In the next example, we will compute the surface

area of a regular triangular pyramid using this
method.

Example 3: Finding the Total Surface Area of

a Regular Triangular Pyramid given the Side
Length of the Base and the Slant Height

Find the total surface area of the regular pyramid

in the given figure, approximating the result to the
nearest hundredth.

The surface area of a pyramid is the sum of the

area of the triangular base and the areas of the
lateral faces, which are the triangular faces
meeting at the apex. We recall that the lateral
faces of a regular pyramid are congruent triangles.
We can better visualize the surface area by
drawing a net of the given pyramid.
From the net, we can note that

Since the three lateral faces are congruent, we can

obtain the lateral area by multiplying the area of

one face by 3:
Next, let us find the area of the base. The base is
the equilateral triangle in the next figure whose
side length is 33.5 cm.To find the area of the base,
we first need to find the height of the equilateral
triangle. We can form a right triangle by drawing
the height of the base triangle.

From the
diagram above, we can see the highlighted right
triangle where the height is labeled as an
unknown constant ℎ.The hypotenuse of this right
triangle is 33.5 cm.Recalling that the height of an
equilateral triangle is the perpendicular bisector of
the base, we know that the remaining side of the
right triangle is exactly half of the bottom side of
the equilateral triangle. Hence, the base of the
right triangle has length

We can use the Pythagorean theorem to write

Rearranging this equation and taking the positive

square root, we obtain
Hence, the height of the base triangle
is 29.0118… cm.Using the given base length
of 33.5 cm,we can obtain

Summing these two areas, we obtain

The surface area of the given regular pyramid is 2 

420.57 cm2 to the nearest hundredth.

In the next example, we will compute the surface

area of a square pyramid when we are given the
base length and the perpendicular height. Yes ma’am

Example 4: Finding the Total Surface Area of

a Square Pyramid given the Side Length of the
Base and the Height

Find the total surface area of the given regular Sum of the areas of all its surfaces.
pyramid, and approximate the result to the nearest
hundredth.

At the bottom ma’am

At the top ma’am

 1
𝐴=lateral face = =
The surface area of a pyramid is the sum of the 2
area of the base and the areas of the lateral faces,
which are the triangular faces meeting at the apex. base side length × slant height. Ma’am
We recall that the lateral faces of a regular square
pyramid are congruent triangles. We can better
visualize the surface area by drawing a net of the
given pyramid.

The slant height,

labeled 𝑠 in the net above, is not provided in this
example, so we need to begin by finding this
length. Since this is a regular pyramid, we know
that the

perpendicular height of the pyramid meets the

base at its center. The perpendicular height is the
blue-dashed line segment of length 37 cm in the
given diagram. This diagram also gives another
blue-dashed line from the center of the base to the
midpoint of one of the sides. We can form a right
triangle with these two blue-dashed lines by
adding the height of this lateral face to this
diagram.
We can see that the slant height is the
hypotenuse of this right triangle. The
perpendicular height of the pyramid, with
length 37 cm,is one of the sides, and the
remaining side of this right triangle is half of
1
the given base length: 2   ×32=16cm.Using
the Pythagorea2n theorem, we can write
2 2 2
s = 37 + 16 = 1625.

This leads to

𝑠 = √ 1625 = 5√ 65 cm.

Now that we know the slant height, we can find

the area of a lateral face:

Since the four lateral faces are congruent, we can

obtain the lateral area by multiplying the area of
one face by 4:
The base of this pyramid is a square with side

length 32 cm,so

Summing these two areas, we obtain

The
surface area of a pyramid is the sum of the area of
the triangular base and the areas of the lateral
faces, which are the triangular faces meeting at
the apex. Since the base of this pyramid is an
equilateral triangle, we can assume that this is a
regular pyramid. We recall that the lateral faces of
a regular pyramid are congruent triangles. We can
better visualize the surface area by drawing a net
of the
given

pyramid.
In the net above, we have labeled the
unknown slant height by 𝑠.We will find the
total surface area of this pyramid using the
unknown constant 𝑠,then we will find the
value of 𝑠 in the end by setting the
expression for the total area equal to the
given value.

The area of one lateral triangle is given by

Since the three lateral faces are congruent, we can

obtain the lateral area by multiplying the area of
one face by 3:

Next, let
us find the area of the base. The base is the
equilateral triangle in the next figure whose side
length is 19 cm.To find the area of the base, we
first need to find the height of the equilateral
triangle. We can form a right triangle by drawing
the height of the base triangle.

Next, let us find the area of the base. The base is

the equilateral triangle in the next figure whose
side length is 19 cm.To find the area of the base,
we first need to
find the height of
the equilateral
triangle. We can
form a right
triangle by drawing
the height of the base
triangle.

D. Generalization

What is surface area?

Very good!

Where is the base of pyramid?

Correct!

Where do we see the Apex in pyramid?

Very good!

What is the formula we need to use to find the

surface areas?

Very good!

E. Application

I will group you into 3 groups