Exploring Cubes
Grade 5•45 minutes•I can identify and describe the properties of a cube, including its faces, edges, and vertices.
Learning Objective
I can explain the properties of a cube, including how many faces, edges, and vertices it has.
Practice Questions
This lesson includes 7 practice questions to reinforce learning.
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1. Explain what a "unit cube" is in your own words, and how it helps us understand volume.
2. Imagine you are building a rectangular prism using unit cubes. If the bottom layer has 10 unit cubes, and the prism is 4 layers tall, how many unit cubes are there in total? Explain how you found your answer.
3. If a rectangular prism is made of 24 unit cubes, what are two different sets of dimensions (length, width, and height) it could have?
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