Volume

We have been working on determining volume for the past couple of days and they have been doing great! Monday we started off exploring what volume is by using creating nets, building the prism, and then filling it with cubes. From that lesson, as a class we determined that volume is how many cubic units will fit inside a prism. They understood right away that volume is how many units it takes to fill a prism.

Jeffrey determining volume using cubes (and eating snack :))

Today we got more into the formula side of volume. There are 2 ways we will see it on the FCAT Reference sheet. The first way is b x w x h. The second way is Bh (where B represents the area of the base.) We are learning both ways to determine it since they will see the formula in 2 different ways (I want them to be comfortable with both since they will both on the reference sheet.)