5th Grade Unit 2 – Geometry

Unit Overview
Content Focus – Students work translating between 2-D and 3-D shapes, structuring rectangular prisms and determining volume.
Looking Back… In 4th grade, students deepened their understanding of 3-D figures, working to describe and name their components. They explored volume by analyzing the structure of rectangular prisms.
Looking Forward… This unit provides the building blocks for students to understand a variety of formulas for calculating the volume of a variety of shapes later in their math education.

Unit Overview

Content Focus –

Students work translating between 2-D and 3-D shapes, structuring rectangular prisms and determining volume.

Looking Back…

In 4th grade, students deepened their understanding of 3-D figures, working to describe and name their components. They explored volume by analyzing the structure of rectangular prisms.

Looking Forward…

This unit provides the building blocks for students to understand a variety of formulas for calculating the volume of a variety of shapes later in their math education.

Resources
Activities/Games/Practice Find the Volume What’s the Volume? Volume Game Grid Paper Volume of Cubes and Rectangular Prisms
Additional Resources Understand, Measure, and Operate with Volume (video series) Relate Volume to Multiplication and Addition (video series)