Grade 5 · Measurement and Data

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.MD.C.3a

A cube with side length 1 unit, called a "unit cube," is said to have "one cubic unit" of volume, and can be used to measure volume.

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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.