Free Grade 3 Introducing Surface Area Quizzes
Free Grade 3 quizzes for Introducing Surface Area: 12 real questions with a full answer key and worked solutions. Volume is how much space a 3D shape takes up. For a cuboid, multiply length × width × height. Surface area is the total area of all faces.
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Prerequisites
Close these gaps first — each has its own free lesson, worksheet and quiz.
How Introducing Surface Area works
Volume is how much space a 3D shape takes up. For a cuboid, multiply length × width × height. Surface area is the total area of all faces.
12 practice questions
Easy to hard, 24 marks in total. Try them first, then open the answers.
- 1.Find the volume of a cuboid 10 cm × 7 cm × 5 cm.[1]
- 2.Find the volume of a cuboid 4 cm × 10 cm × 8 cm.[1]
- 3.Find the volume of a cuboid 2 cm × 9 cm × 2 cm.[1]
- 4.Find the volume of a cuboid 2 cm × 4 cm × 7 cm.[1]
- 5.Find the volume of a cuboid 10 cm × 10 cm × 9 cm.[2]
- 6.Find the volume of a cuboid 8 cm × 5 cm × 6 cm.[2]
- 7.Find the volume of a cuboid 10 cm × 6 cm × 3 cm.[2]
- 8.Find the volume of a cuboid 2 cm × 9 cm × 4 cm.[2]
- 9.Find the surface area of a cuboid 7 cm × 6 cm × 6 cm.[3]
- 10.Find the surface area of a cuboid 5 cm × 10 cm × 2 cm.[3]
- 11.Find the surface area of a cuboid 5 cm × 4 cm × 5 cm.[3]
- 12.Find the surface area of a cuboid 7 cm × 4 cm × 5 cm.[3]
Show answers and working
1. 350 cm³
Volume = length × width × height. 10 × 7 × 5 = 350 cm³.
2. 320 cm³
Volume = length × width × height. 4 × 10 × 8 = 320 cm³.
3. 36 cm³
Volume = length × width × height. 2 × 9 × 2 = 36 cm³.
4. 56 cm³
Volume = length × width × height. 2 × 4 × 7 = 56 cm³.
5. 900 cm³
Volume = length × width × height. 10 × 10 × 9 = 900 cm³.
6. 240 cm³
Volume = length × width × height. 8 × 5 × 6 = 240 cm³.
7. 180 cm³
Volume = length × width × height. 10 × 6 × 3 = 180 cm³.
8. 72 cm³
Volume = length × width × height. 2 × 9 × 4 = 72 cm³.
9. 240 cm²
Three pairs of faces: 42, 36, 42. 2 × (42 + 36 + 42) = 240 cm².
10. 160 cm²
Three pairs of faces: 50, 20, 10. 2 × (50 + 20 + 10) = 160 cm².
11. 130 cm²
Three pairs of faces: 20, 20, 25. 2 × (20 + 20 + 25) = 130 cm².
12. 166 cm²
Three pairs of faces: 28, 20, 35. 2 × (28 + 20 + 35) = 166 cm².
Worked examples
Find the volume of a cuboid 5 cm × 7 cm × 7 cm.
- Volume = length × width × height.
- 5 × 7 × 7 = 245 cm³.
- Answer: 245 cm³
Find the volume of a cuboid 9 cm × 4 cm × 10 cm.
- Volume = length × width × height.
- 9 × 4 × 10 = 360 cm³.
- Answer: 360 cm³
Find the surface area of a cuboid 2 cm × 8 cm × 10 cm.
- Three pairs of faces: 16, 80, 20.
- 2 × (16 + 80 + 20) = 232 cm².
- Answer: 232 cm²
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Common mistakes
What learners typically get wrong, and how to fix it.
Adds the dimensions instead of multiplying.
Correction: Volume = l × w × h.
Counts only three faces for surface area.
Correction: A cuboid has six faces — three matching pairs.
Teacher tips
- · Build cuboids from cubes before using the formula.
Parent tips
- · Work out how many sugar cubes fit in a box.
Real-life applications
- · Filling a fish tank, wrapping a present.
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- Move on to Working with Surface Area, Surface Area in Context, Nets, Volume of Prisms, which build directly on this idea.
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