5th Grade Math - Recognizing Volume

This post explains and gives practice opportunities related to TEKS 5.6A:

recognize a cube with side length of one unit as a unit cube having one cubic unit of volume and the volume of a three-dimensional figure as the number of unit cubes (n cubic units) needed to fill it with no gaps or overlaps if possible

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Instruction

Before students learn to calculate volume, they learn to visualize it using small, 1-unit cubes.

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STAAR Practice

Between 2016 and 2023 (including redesign practice), this supporting standard has been tested 5 times on the STAAR test. Videos explaining each problem can be found below. If you'd rather take a quiz over these questions, click here. The videos below are linked to the questions in the quiz as answer explanations after the quiz is submitted.

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