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• Building cuboids • interlocking centimetre cubes, • Building towers _ interlocking centimetre cubes,
RM A or 1 cm squared paper
RMA or 1 em squared paper
This is a tower of centimetre cubes.
This cuboid uses 16 centimetre cubes. • It hos 4 centimetre cubes
REMEMBER
in each layer.
Volume is the • It has 2 loyers.
amount of space
an object takes up.

j OJ .. a,.Build tbis tower with centimetre.cubes. .
: Then add, mor~ layers and count the cljbic centimetres.
• Its height is 2 cm. . Its length is 4 cm. . Its width is 2 cm. ~-- b Copy and complete 'thrs lable:
• Its volume is 16 cubic centimetres.
. number of layers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10
• 16 cubic centimetres can be written 16 cu cm. 9
volume of the
a Make as many different cuboids as you can 4- 8
tower in eu em
with volumes of 16 cubic centimetres.
b Record the height, length and width of each one.
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a Draw this shape on squared paper.
Use 24 centimetre cubes to build a cuboid . t'l' -' ~ _ ..
which will fit on top of the shape. C I :
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b Now describe it in the way
shown by the blue writing .
a On squared paper, draw other shapes on which you can
build a cuboid with 24 centimetre cubes. Baild a tower with 36'c'entimetre'cab'e's on each shape . •. '- 1-'. -1"
b Check your ideas using centimetre cubes . ,--
. R~cord your results in th":~.~= vv ay , a~_in ill.
c Describe each cuboid. Challenge
CHALLENGE CHALLENGE "] Make towers shaped
Make towers shaped like the letters U and T,
• Make a cuboid with a volume of 50 cu cm .
• Describe it. • Try to draw it. 1 each with a volume of 26 cu cm . like letters U and T,
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each with a volume of
·f 26cu cm.
number of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 q 10
layers
Open: making different cuboids with volume of a Height is 2 cm, a Practical: building a b volume of the
4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40
16 cubic centimetres and recording the height, length is 6cm, tower with centimetre tower in eu em
length and width of each one. ' width is 2 cm. cubes.
number of layers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7181 q 1101111121
Challenge
volume of tower a
6 12 18 24 30 36
in eu em
a Open: drawing on squared paper other Make a cuboid with Buiding towers
shapes on which to build a cuboids with 24 volume 50 cu cm, with 36 centimetre volume of tower b 3 6 q 12 15 18 21 1241271301331361
in eu em
centimetre cubes. (For example: 4 x 2 x 3 on describe and try to cubes. volume of tower e
a 4 x 2 or 3 x 2 rectangle.) draw it. in eu em 12 24 36
b Check by using centimetre cubes.
volume of tower d q
c Describe each cuboid as in 2a. in eu em 18 27 36