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| Building with the cubic centimeters |
In our Workforce Math class, we discovered a short-cut to finding the volume of a box.
First, we had to build the right three-d shape. We used a picture.
Then, we had to count the cubic centimeters (those little yellow cubes are 1 centimeter on a side). This took a long time if the shape was large!
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| Counting cubes to find the volume. |
Then, we discovered that if we use multiplication, we can actually find the volume without the cubes by doing:
Length x Width x Height = Volume
Or, since using math language means using a lot of abbreviations: L x W x H = V
We tested this several times to make sure the
L x W x H = V always worked.
It does!
