1. Cuboid – Volume & Surface Area – Messenger!
In this activity, one student at a time acts as a messenger for their team (2+ students).
Without running (!), they relay information about the questions
(posted around the room) to their teammates who then answer them.
Students need to record the question letter and the answer so they can mark their work using the answer slide at the end of the activity.
With the points system, students can attempt appropriate questions.
You could choose posters/questions to include and delete others.
(Clear plastic wallets around your classroom
make it quick and easy to display posters.)

2. Volume & Surface Area of Cuboids - Messenger
In this activity, one student acts as a messenger for their team (2+ students).
Without running (!), they relay information about the questions
(posted around the room) to their teammates who then answer them.
Students need to record the question letter and the answer so they can mark their work using the answer slide at the end of the activity.
With the points system, students can attempt appropriate questions.
You could choose the posters/questions to include and delete others.
(Use clear plastic wallets around your classroom to
make it quick and easy to put up posters.)

3. Printing To print handouts from slides -
Select the slide from the left. Then click:
File > Print > ‘Print Current Slide’
To print multiple slides -
Click on a section title to highlight all those slides,
or press ‘Ctrl’ at the same time as selecting slides to
highlight more than one. Then click:
File > Print > ‘Print Selection’

4. Messenger!
Title Slide

5. 10 In teams pick a messenger! It’s their job to collect questions
for the rest of the team to answer.
You can change who is the messenger but
only one person is allowed to stand up at once and
they can’t carry a pen or paper to the question!
Each question is worth a different number of points!
Record the question letter and your
answer on a single piece of paper.
After marking,
the team that scores the most points wins! 10
Optional rules slide to show the class.

6. 3 3 Question B Question A Calculate the volume of this cube.
5cm

7. 5 4 Question D Question C Calculate the volume of this cuboid.
3cm 8m
12cm 9m
7cm

8. 5 5 Question F Question E Calculate the surface area of this cube.3m
4cm
4.2m

9. 7 6 Question H Question G Calculate the surface area
of this cuboid.
Calculate the surface area
of this cuboid.
4mm
7mm
5cm
8mm
9mm
4cm
6cm

10. 8 8 Question J Question I Calculate the volume and
surface area of this cuboid.
Calculate the volume and
surface area of this cuboid.
5mm 2m
3mm
13mm 5m 6m

11. 9 9 Question L Question K Calculate the volume and
surface area of this cuboid.
Calculate the volume and
surface area of this cuboid.
15cm
20cm
200mm
0.3m
0.4m
25cm

12. 10 11 Question M Question N Calculate the volume and surface area
6cm
Calculate the
volume of this compound cuboid.
3cm
4cm
2cm
Question N 11
Calculate the
volume and surface area
of this compound cuboid. 2m
1.5m 3m 3m 4m

13. 15 12 Question O Question P The surface area of this cuboid is 208cm2.
What is the missing length?
6cm
8cm ?
Question P 12
This box is 12cm deep
and has no top.
How many 1cm3 cubes can it hold?
How much cardboard is needed
to construct the box?
20m
25cm

14. 12 12 Question R Question Q The volume of this cuboid
is 240cm3.
What is its surface area?
The surface area of this cuboid is
52cm2.
Find the value of 𝑥.
4cm
𝑥+1 cm ?
𝑥 cm
10cm
𝑥+2 cm
Hint: Estimate values

15. 13 13 Question T Question S Calculate the Calculate the
volume and surface area
of this compound cuboid.
Calculate the
volume and surface area
of this compound cuboid. 7m
4cm 4m
4cm 6m
6cm
4cm
5cm 4m
12cm 2m

16. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T
Qu.
Answer
Points A
125cm3 3 B
216cm3 C
252cm3 4 D
36cm3 5 E
96cm2 F
54cm2 G
148cm2 6 H
232mm2 7 I
V = 60m3
SA = 104m2 8 J
V = 195mm3
SA = 238mm2
Qu.
Answer
Points K
V = 15000cm3
SA = 3700cm2 9 L
V = 12000cm3
SA = 3400cm2 M
60cm3 10 N
V = 27m3
SA = 60m2 11 O
4cm 15 P
6000 cubes
SA = 1580cm2 12 Q
𝑥=2 R
248cm2 S
V = 128m3
SA = 168m2 13 T
V = 320cm3
SA = 328cm2
Answers to display so students can mark their own or another team’s work.

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