Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Measurable attributes of area and how it relates to finding the volume of objects.
- Units of measurement for volume, specifically unit cubes.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Solve word problems involving volume.
- Use associative property of multiplication to find volume.
- Relate operations of multiplication and addition to finding volume.
- Apply formulas to find volume of right rectangular prisms.
- Find volume of solid figures composed of two rectangular prisms.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Volume is a derived attribute based on a length unit and can be computed as the product of three length measurements or as the product of one base area and one length measurement.
- Volume is an extension of area and can be found as the area of the base being repeated for a given number of layers.
Vocabulary
- Volume
- Unit cube
- Rectangular prism
- Base
- Base-area
- Dimensions
- Face
- Length
- Width
- Height
- Layers
- Edge
- Equivalent
- Conservation of volume
- Attribute
- Composition
- Decomposition
- Formula
