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Sugar Cube Castles and Cubic Units

Grade 5 volume practice with sugar cube castles. Students learn that a unit cube has a volume of 1 cubic unit and use unit cubes to measure volume.

Grade 5MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to5.MD.C.3.a

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  • Single worksheet
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  • 1 Common Core standard
  • Printable answer key
  • 11 questions
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Details

Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 5
Subject
Math
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students explain that a cube with edges 1 unit long is a unit cube with a volume of 1 cubic unit.
  • Students find the volume of a solid by counting the unit cubes that fill it with no gaps.
  • Students choose a sensible size of unit cube to measure the volume of an object.

How to use

Show a real centimeter cube or sugar cube before starting if you have one. Students can build the walls and towers with snap cubes to check their counts.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

5.MD.C.3.a

Understand that a unit cube has one cubic unit of volume.

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Sugar Cube Castles and Cubic Units

Learn what a unit cube is and use it to measure volume.

Meet the sugar cube

Kids at an art camp build castles from a sugar cube kit. In the kit, every sugar cube is 1 centimeter long on each edge.

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1.
Look at one sugar cube from the kit.

A sugar cube has   faces. Each face is a square.
A sugar cube has   edges. Each edge is 1 centimeter long.
The volume of one sugar cube is   cubic centimeter.

2.
Why is a sugar cube from the kit called a unit cube?
  • A. It has 6 square faces.
  • B. All of its edges add up to 1 centimeter.
  • C. Each of its edges is exactly 1 unit long: 1 centimeter.
  • D. It is the smallest cube anyone can make.

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