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Making sense of the formula
Students complete a task of recording dimensions and calculating the volume of shapes made with centicubes.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 5
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Student activities
- Strand
- Measurement
- Topic
- Mass and capacity Area, volume and surface area
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M5M01
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding units of measurement (P8)
- Publisher
- BetterLesson
- Copyright
- © Erin Doughty. Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0.
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