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Monster Cubes

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COMBINED RATING

3.5 Stars

TEACHERS (25)

4.2

STUDENTS (1862)

2.9

LENGTH

19 Minutes

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Spanish Language Support

Text-to-Speech Support

Description

Destroy monster cubes by launching stars and using the volume formula to make your job easier!

Vocabulary Words

volume

unit cubes

prism

area

length

width

formula

sum

row

column

Instructions

Play through this interactive game to learn about Prism Volume Using Unit Cubes. Suitable for Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5.

Main Concepts

A unit of volume, a cube with a side length of 1 unit, is called a unit cube.

Mentally decompose and recompose a right rectangular prism built from cubes into layers, each of which is composed of rows and columns.

Understand that multiplying the length times the width of a right rectangular prism can be viewed as determining how many cubes would be in each layer if the prism were packed with or built up from unit cubes. The height of the prism tells how many layers would fit in the prism.

The formula for volume can be derived as length times width times height, or the area of the Base times the height (V = l x w x h or V = B x h).

Use understanding of multiplying the area of the base and the number of layers to determine the volume of a rectangular prism.

Explain how the associative property can be applied to finding the volume.

Explain multiplication of the area of the base x the height will result in the volume.

Side lengths are whole numbers.

Recognize volume as an attribute of a solid figure.

Use unit cubes as a basis for students understanding of volume as a measurable attribute.

Volume is consists of layers of measurable units.

Discussion Questions

Before the Game

How do you find the area of a shape? Explain the length/width of a shape? How are volume and area different? Describe what a unit cube is? What is a formula to find the volume of a prism? How does finding the area help you find the volume?

After the Game

How was it helpful to use the slider to see the layers in the prism? How is the formula for area similar to the formula for volume? Why is the volume formula longer than the area formula? What changed in how to you found the volume of shapes that were not normal rectangular prisms? How do you find the volume for a prism with a section missing out of the section?

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