5th Grade
Unit 3: Volume
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37 Points
1. John fills this box with cubes.
How many total cubes would fill this box? ___________________________cubic inches
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2. Why can’t you use a marble to measure the volume of a box?
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5th Grade
5.MD.3
Unit 3: Volume
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6 pts
3. Mrs. Martin is trying to decide how many pieces of chocolate her new candy box can hold. Use
the information below to solve the problems. Show your work and label your answer.
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6 pieces of chocolate measuring 1 cubic inch can fit along one side of the box.
8 pieces of chocolate measuring 1 cubic inch can fit along the other side of the box.
2 pieces of chocolate can stack on top of one another.
a.) What is the volume of the box Mrs. Martin ordered?
b.) How many pieces of chocolate will fit in the box?
c.) Explain how finding the volume of the box allows you to determine the number of pieces of
chocolate that will fit inside the box.
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5th Grade
5.MD.4
Unit 3: Volume
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3 pts
4. Tyson built this stack of cm cubes. What is the volume of the stack? Show your work and label
your answer.
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3 pts
5. What is the volume of this shape?
Label your answer.
How do you know?
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8 pts
6. When given 24 cubes, students make as many rectangular prisms as possible with a volume
of 24 cubic units. Complete the chart below with the given dimensions.
Length
Width
Height
2
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6
4
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5th Grade
5.MD.5
Unit 3: Volume
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6 pts
7. Use the figure below to answer the following questions. Show your work in the space below and
label your answers.
l = 4 cm, w = 3 cm, h = 9 cm
a.) What is the area of the base of this right rectangular prism? _________________________
b.) To fill the prism, you need ___________ layers of centimeter cubes.
c.) What is the volume of this rectangular prism? ____________________________________
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8. The park has a new rectangular sandbox. The area of the base of the sandbox is 64 ft². The
height of the sandbox is 2 feet. How much sand is needed to fill the sandbox? Show your work and
label your answer.
Explain how you know that your answer is correct.
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5th Grade
5.MD.5
Unit 3: Volume
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5.MD.3-5
3 pts
9. How much ink would be needed to fill the ink cartridge below? Show each step of your work and
label your answer.
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Last revised: 10/02/2015