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Measurement Mansion

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COMBINED RATING

3.9 Stars

TEACHERS (17)

4.3

STUDENTS (3675)

3.5

LENGTH

20 Minutes

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Description

Explore a quirky mansion and help the owner pack away his strange furniture by measuring volume with unit cubes!

Vocabulary Words

measurement

volume

unit cubes

length

width

height

cubed units

square units

area

base

squared units

Instructions

Play through this interactive game to learn about Volume of Right Rectangular Prisms. Suitable for Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5.

Main Concepts

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.

Build right rectangular prisms and count the cubes and see that they are composed of layers of cubes.

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

Use Standard Units of Measure cubic cm, cubic in, cubic ft and any unit that the problem presents.

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

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

Volume is consists of layers of measurable units.

Compare the volume-units and what they represent when comparing filling or packing (1cm^3 or ml) to determine that both represent filling of 3-dimensional shape.

Solve real world and mathematical problems using the formula for volume which 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).

Pack cubes (without gaps) into right rectangular prisms from cubes and count the cubes to determine the volume.

Side lengths are whole numbers.

Recognize volume as an attribute of a solid figure.

Discussion Questions

Before the Game

How do you find the area of an object? What is volume? What is different when you want to find the volume of an object? What are the dimensions of an object that we need to know to find its volume?

After the Game

How was the area of the truck different from the volume of the truck? What was the difference in finding the measurement of the base of the truck versus the height? Why did you need both measurements? Which units did you use for the bigger objects versus the smaller ones? What is the formula to find area vs. volume?