Volume

Looking for a fun interactive teaching idea for finding volume of rectangular prisms? Well look no further as Volume of Rectangular Prisms Game Puzzles, for CCSS 5.MD.5, will serve as an exciting lesson plan for 5th Grade elementary school classrooms. This is a great resource to incorporate into your measurement unit as a guided math center rotation, review game exercise, small group work, morning work, remediation, intervention or rti. It can also be used as a quiz, drill, test, or assessment tool to help determine student mastery of the learning target. Whether a student is homeschooled or given this as a homework assignment, kids will also love working on these at home to improve their skills.

This puzzle set includes 24 colorful jigsaw puzzles, answer key, and an optional station instruction page with an example. These come as pdf printable sheets that can be printed on card stock and laminated for long-term use. As a suggestion, store them in a sealable gallon storage bag and place them in a tub or bin for students to use throughout the year for enrichment when they finish early. Another idea, for a project, is students can glue the completed puzzles into a notebook or journal as a reference sheet. They can also be glued on a poster for displaying on a bulletin board or as a wall anchor chart.

It covers finding the volume of a given shape of rectangular prism or cube by writing the equation for length multiplied by width and height. Students will need to solve the multiplication equation to find the answer for volume in cubic units. By matching puzzle pieces to solve the problems, students can gain confidence in an important and sometimes challenging skill. Your 5th graders will love to practice and learn to develop strategies about calculating volume of rectangular 3D shapes.

I hope you download and enjoy this engaging hands-on manipulative activity with your students! So set those worksheets aside and give our puzzles a try!

Relevant 5th Grade Common Core Standards
5.MD.C.3
Recognize volume as an attribute of solid figures and understand concepts of volume measurement.
5.MD.C.4
Measure volumes by counting unit cubes
5.MD.C.5
Relate volume to the operations of multiplication
Cross Reference: Texas TEKS 5.4G 5.6A 5.6B and Virginia SOL 5.8A 6.10D