Sunday, 24 April 2016

Exploring Volume & Capacity

Maths enquiries we have been exploring lately........

Central Idea we are exploring:

We use different units and strategies to measure the volume and capacity of objects.

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Building a city for ladybirds to help investigate strategies we can use to measure the volume of cubes, cuboids and rectangular prisms:

       




Estimating and then measuring the capacity of boxes using cubic centimetres:









Finding out how many cubic centimetres equals 1 cubic metre:






Groups are then using our cubic metre to estimate and then measure the volume of our classroom.

Our estimates:



Estimating and the measuring the capacity of containers using millilitres and litres as a measuring unit:





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