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Unit 3
5th Grade
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Solve a three-act task involving volume.
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5.MD.C.5 — Relate volume to the operations of multiplication and addition and solve real world and mathematical problems involving volume.
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25-30 minutes
Act 1:
Watch the video Overflow (Act-1).
a. What do you notice? What do you wonder?
b. How many small cubes will it take to fill the large rectangular prism? Make an estimate.
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Overflow by Graham Fletcher is made available on Questioning My Metacognition under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Accessed Feb. 6, 2018, 10:58 a.m..
Act 2: Use the following information to determine how many small cubes will it take to fill the large rectangular prism.
Act 3: Watch Overflow (Act 3) to see the solution. Was your estimate reasonable? Why or why not?
Act 4 (sequel): You have another rectangular prism with the same volume as the (empty) prism from Anchor Tasks 1-3. But, it has different dimensions. What might those dimensions be? How many different possibilities are there?
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5-10 minutes
Asad and Margalita have pools in the shape of rectangular prisms that each hold 576 cubic feet of water. The bottom of Asad’s pool has an area 96 sq ft. The bottom of Margalita’s pool has an area 72 sq ft. Whose pool is deeper? How much deeper? Show or explain your work.
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Understand that volume is additive. Find the volume of composite solid figures when all dimensions are given and their decomposition is already shown.
Topic A: Volume of Three-Dimensional Figures
Understand volume as an attribute of solid figures that is measured in cubic units. Find the volume of concrete three-dimensional figures.
Standards
5.MD.C.35.MD.C.4
Find the volume of pictorial three-dimensional figures.
5.MD.C.4
Find the volume of a right rectangular prism by thinking about its layers.
5.MD.C.5
Find the volume of a right rectangular prism using its side lengths.
Represent volume using expressions related to the formulas $$V = b \times h $$ and $$V = l \times w \times h$$. Use these formulas to find the volume of pictorial rectangular prisms.
Understand standard units for measuring volume, including cubic inches, cubic centimeters, cubic feet, and cubic meters. Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving these various units.
5.MD.C.45.MD.C.5.B
Solve more complex real-world and mathematical problems involving volume.
5.MD.C.5.C
Understand that volume is additive. Find the volume of composite solid figures when not all dimensions are given and/or they must be decomposed.
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Topic B: Classification of Two-Dimensional Shapes
Classify shapes as polygons versus non-polygons and classify polygons according to their number of sides.
5.G.B.35.G.B.4
Classify quadrilaterals based on the presence or absence of one pair of parallel sides. Define trapezoids as quadrilaterals with at least one pair of parallel sides.
Classify trapezoids based on the presence of one or two sets of parallel sides. Define parallelograms as trapezoids with two sets of parallel sides.
Classify parallelograms based on the presence or absence of right angles or based on the presence or absence of sides of equal length. Define rectangles as parallelograms with four right angles and rhombuses as parallelograms with four equal sides.
Classify rectangles based on the presence or absence of sides of equal length, and classify rhombuses based on the presence or absence of right angles. Define squares as quadrilaterals with sides of equal length and all right angles.
Classify triangles based on side and angle measures.
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