5.1 Finding Volume
Unit Goals
- Students find the volume of right rectangular prisms and solid figures composed of two right rectangular prisms.
Section A Goals
- Describe volume as the space taken up by a solid object.
- Measure the volume of a rectangular prism by finding the number of unit cubes needed to fill it.
- Use the layered structure in a rectangular prism to find volume.
Section B Goals
- Describe the calculations from the previous section as \text{length} \times \text{width} \times \text{height} or \text{area of the base} \times \text{height}.
- Find volume using \text{length} \times \text{width} \times \text{height} or \text{area of the base} \times \text{height}.
Section C Goals
- Find the volume of a figure composed of rectangular prisms.