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Help your students visualize rectangular prisms with this exercise. Students will practice modeling rectangular prisms and calculating the volume of each shape using the formula.

Transfer student’s understanding of calculating the volume of rectangular prisms to calculating the volume of irregular shapes.

Learners will find the volume of different rectangular prisms by counting up how many cubic units were used to make each figure.

Use sugar cubes, ice cubes or blocks to build each cube or rectangular prism. Then, count up the cubes and write down the volume.

This printable offers a meaningful way to help students conceptualize the relationship between the volume of a rectangular prism and its side lengths.

Centimeter cubes have gone wild with these irregular shapes! Students will be challenged to calculate the volume of different shapes by counting the cubes.