Grade 5 Unit 1
Lesson 8: Figures Made of Prisms
CC BY 2021 Illustrative Mathematics
Grade 5 Unit 1
Lesson 8: Figures Made of Prisms
CC BY 2021 Illustrative Mathematics
Which one doesn’t belong?
Partner A, build a rectangular prism with 12 cubes.
Partner B, build a rectangular prism with 10 cubes.
Put your two rectangular prisms together to make one figure.
What is the volume of the new figure? Explain or show your thinking.
Diego and Jada put together two rectangular prisms to make this figure:
What is the volume of the figure Diego and Jada made?
Which rectangular prisms could Diego and Jada each have built?
Explain or show your thinking. Organize it so it can be followed by others.
Find the volume of each figure. Explain or show your reasoning.
Find the volume of the figure. Explain or show your reasoning.
