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Changing areas and changing volumes
This activity challenges students to arrange different cubes and cuboids in a grid.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 7 Year 9
- Purpose
- Assessment tasks Student activities
- Strand
- Measurement
- Topic
- Area, volume and surface area
- Audience
- Students
- Format
- Webpage
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding units of measurement (P9)
- Publisher
- NRICH
- Copyright
- © 1997-2021 University of Cambridge. Free-for-education material.
- Keywords
- length units
- Other terms
- prism formula
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