Creating a Cube


To begin our unit on volume the students created a cubic meter using meter sticks.
 

We combined our squares to make a cubic meter.
 



How many of the large Base-10 cubes will fill in our cubic meter?
 
This activity was adapted from K5 Math Teaching Resources.

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