Finding the volume of cuboids

In Year 5, the children have been finding the volume of different 3d shapes, cubes and cuboids. They used cubes to help them construct shapes in order to help them visualise and had to work out how many more blocks would be needed to make the shapes into cubes and cuboids. Some of the children even worked backwards and tried to create shapes after being given the volumes. 

Lucy, Elm class, said 'using the blocks helped me to work out how many more cubes I needed to make cubes and cuboids. It was a fun way to learn!'