Grade 5 · Measurement and Data

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.MD.C.5a

Find the volume of a right 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, equivalently by multiplying the height by the area of the base. Represent threefold whole-number products as volumes, e.g., to represent the associative property of multiplication.

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Lessons that teach this standard

• Volume of a Rectangular Prism: Length × Width × Height

  Why the volume of a box is length times width times height, why the units are cubed, and how the base-times-height form works for any prism.