For this task, students compare the relative volumes of boxes in order to calculate the mass of clay required to fill them.
This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the 5th grade Math content.
This resource accompanies our Rethink 5th Grade Math course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning.
Students use multiplication to calculate area of rectangles.
Students apply their understanding of calculating volume of right rectangular prisms to find the volumes and various costs of building a neighborhood basketball court. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.
Students work in small groups to build one 1m by 1m squares using newspaper. The groups combine to construct a cube. The students then fill the cubes with base 10 cubes, longs and flats.
In this lesson, students will be creating boxes for candy which will help students understand measuring volume and surface area.
This task applies the concept of volume to a real-world topic. As students move through the task, the depth of their conceptual knowledge of the topic will be revealed. Students will work forward and backward to determine the volume and dimensions of the aquariums featured in the task.
Students count the number of cubes on the board in this interactive game.
Students find the volume of rectangular prisms.
Students work with a partner to cut out different sized open boxes and fill each box with cubes to find the volume.
Students work with a partner to build two different rectangular prisms out of centimeter cubes. Students then find the volume of each individual prism, then join the prisms and add the volumes in order to find the total volume of the new prism.
G5M5: Addition and Multiplication with Volume and Area. Contains 21 Lessons.
Purpose: Engages students and introduces elements needed for building a playground.
In “Playground Palooza”, students will take the role of a playground designer responding to a request for a new playground at the school. Students will learn about numerical patterns, reading and writing decimals, rounding decimals, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals, converting measurements, volume, measuring volume, relating volume, coordinate planes, and attributes of 2D figures. Students will determine the total area of the new playground, determine the total area for each structure you want included on your playground, determine the volume of sand needed for the sandbox, use at least three playground structures, create a table of equipment and materials including company name, cost, quantity, and totals, create a coordinate system to display the center point for each structures or area on the playground, and submit a blueprint of their playground design.
***NOTE
This PBL was created before NC adopted the NC standards for Math. Therefore this PBL also addresses: rounding decimals.
Students make reasonable estimates about the volume of given objects.
This grade 5 unit of measurement lessons explores volume through 6 hands-on activities and 5 worksheets.
Students find the volume and surface area of a rectangular box (e.g., a cereal box), and then figure out how to convert that box into a new, cubical box having the same volume as the original. As they construct the new, cube-shaped box from the original box material, students discover that the cubical box has less surface area than the original, and thus, a cube is a more efficient way to package things.
For this task, students find the volume and surface of rectangular prisms and devise and use problem solving strategies to explore situations mathematically.
Purpose: Engages students and introduces elements needed for building a playground.
In “Playground Palooza”, students will take the role of a playground designer responding to a request for a new playground at the school. Students will learn about numerical patterns, reading and writing decimals, rounding decimals, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals, converting measurements, volume, measuring volume, relating volume, coordinate planes, and attributes of 2D figures. Students will determine the total area of the new playground, determine the total area for each structure you want included on your playground, determine the volume of sand needed for the sandbox, use at least three playground structures, create a table of equipment and materials including company name, cost, quantity, and totals, create a coordinate system to display the center point for each structures or area on the playground, and submit a blueprint of their playground design.
***NOTE
This PBL was created before NC adopted the NC standards for Math. Therefore this PBL also addresses: rounding decimals.