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5.G Meerkat Coordinate Plane Task

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This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Greetings from the Kalahari Desert in South Africa! In this activity, you will learn a lot about the Kalahari’s most playful residents: meerkats. The f...

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Illustrative Mathematics

5th Grade Task: Find the Volume

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A 5th-grade Task aligned to NC.5.MD.5 - Understand concepts of volume. Level #1 • Find the volume of a rectangular prism with whole-number side lengths by packing it with unit cubes and show that the volume is the same as would be found by multiplying the edge lengths. Level #2 • Build an understanding of the volume formula for rectangular prisms with whole-number edge lengths in the context of solving problems. Level #3 • Find the volume of solid figures with one-digit dimensions composed of two non-overlapping rectangular prisms.

Material Type: Homework/Assignment

Author: LOUISE SALERNO