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Use packing to recognize volume of a solid figure.
Clarifications:
Essential Understandings
Concrete:
- Identify a rectangular prism using models.
- Identify a unit cube given models.
- Use unit cubes to pack a rectangular prism.
- Identify a rectangular prism using images.
- Understand that packing is filling a rectangular prism (i.e., box) with cubes having no gaps or overlaps.
- Understand the following vocabulary and concepts of unit cubes, solid figure, rectangular prism, volume.
General Information
Number: MAFS.5.MD.3.AP.3a
Category: Access Points
Cluster:
Geometric measurement: understand concepts of volume and relate volume to multiplication and to addition. (Major Cluster) :
Clusters should not be sorted from Major to Supporting and then taught in that order. To do so would strip the coherence of the mathematical ideas and miss the opportunity to enhance the major work of the grade with the supporting clusters.
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