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=Welcome to Your Class Packaging Wiki!=  This unit is based on the mathematics behind surface area and volume as well as the environmental impact of packaging. We will study various package shapes and designs focusing on those units, which use the same amount of material, varying dimensions and the overall impact that these factors have on package volume. We will then study the configurations of rectangular prisms with the same volume and determine the configurations that minimize surface area. The unit will culminate with an application of what we have learned about environmental impact and configuration of packaging by making recommendations to various companies based on our findings.  []  Over the next 7 weeks we will be using this class Wiki to:
 *  Create nets for different 3-dimensional figures
 * Create different nets which form the same rectangular prisms
 * Create nets and rectangular prisms that have that the same volume but different surface areas
 *  Calculate the volume of cylinders and prisms using formulas
 *  Create dimensions for a prism based on a fixed volume
 *  Solve problems using the volume formulas
 *  Compare the surface area and volume of similar shaped objects
 *  Compare the surface area and volume of different shaped objects
 *  Identify which dimensions which have the largest impact on volume
 *  Discover the type of rectangular prism that can be built to minimize surface area
 *  Apply real-life considerations to minimizing cost

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