Week 38: June 13th- June 18h : Mathematics PDF

Topic: Measurements and Volume

Monday: Timetables
Page 2 & 3

Tuesday: What is Volume?

Page 4 & 5

Wednesday: Compare Volume

Page 6 & 7

Thursday: Estimate Volume

Page 8 -10

Friday: Estimate Capacity

Page 11-13
 Monday Page 2

2 Here is an extract from a TV guide.

Timetables
17:00 17:30 18:00 18:30 19:00 19:30 20:00

Giant
News Catch It! Wilson Street News Detective Files
George
1 Here is a bus timetable.

a) At what times is the news on? and

Bus A Bus B Bus C b) What time does Detective Files start?

Green Park Road 08:45 09:00 09:15
c) How long is Wilson Street on for? _________________
Forrest Drive 09:05 09:20 09:35
d) Eva is working out how long Catch It! is on for.
Summerville Street 09:22 09:37 09:52
Here are her workings.
Penny Bridge 09:40 09:55
7 9

a) What time does Bus A arrive at Green Park Road? 1 8 1

0 1
0

– 1 7 1 5
b) What time does Bus B arrive at Summerville Street? Catch It! is on
for 85 minutes. 0 0 8 5
c) What time does Bus C arrive at Forrest Drive?

d) Each bus takes the same amount of time to get from

Green Park Road to Penny Bridge.
What time does Bus C arrive at Penny Bridge?

Do you agree with Eva? _________________

Talk about it with a partner.
e)

The news is on for half

e) Eva needs to be at Summerville Street by 9:35 an hour in total.
Which bus does she need to get from Green Park Road?

Do you agree with Ron? _________________

Explain your answer.
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3 Here is part of a train timetable. 5 Draw a timetable of your school day.

St Pancras 06:25 06:40 06:55 07:05 07:22

Stratford 06:32 06:47 07:02 07:12 07:29

Ebbsfleet 06:43 06:59 07:15 07:23 07:40

Ashford – 07:19 – 07:42 –

Gravesend 06:47 – 07:18 – 07:43

a) How many of the trains go all the way from St Pancras

to Gravesend?
a) How many minutes do you spend at school?
b) How long does the 06:40 take to get from St Pancras to Ashford?

minutes minutes

c) Which train takes the least amount of time to get from b) How many seconds do you have for your lunch break?
St Pancras to Gravesend?

seconds

c) Write your own questions for a partner to answer about

4 In this timetable, all the trains stop at every station and the time your timetable.
taken between stations does not change.
Fill in the missing information.

Aberford 08:30 11:00 13:10

Cartown 11:22 d) Work with a partner to create your timetable for the rest of
the week.
Donville 13:47
Work out how many hours, minutes and days you spend on
Highborough 14:01
each subject.
Southland 09:57 16:03

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2 What is the volume of each 3D shape?

What is volume?
a) d)

1 Dexter has made some 3D shapes using cubes.

volume = cubes volume = cubes
b) e)

volume = cubes volume = cubes

c) f)

a) What is the same about the 3D shapes he has made?

volume = cubes volume = cubes

Compare answers with a partner.

b) What is different about the 3D shapes he has made?

3

The volume
of this shape is
Compare answers with a partner. 7 cubes.

c) What is the volume of each of Dexter’s 3D shapes?

Do you agree with Teddy?

cubes
Explain your answer.

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4 Each cube has a volume of 1 cm3 6 Ron is making 3D shapes using 10 cubes.

What is the volume of each shape?

a) b)

a) Use cubes to investigate the different shapes Ron can make.

b) Draw three of your shapes on the isometric paper.

volume = cm3 volume = cm3

5 Three cuboids are drawn on isometric paper.

A B C

a) How many cubes are needed to make each cuboid?

A cubes B cubes C cubes

b) If each cube has a side length of 1 cm, what is the volume of

each cuboid?
c) What is the volume of each of your shapes? cubes
A cm3 B cm3 C cm3
d) Compare answers with a partner.
What is the same and what is different?

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2 Each cube has a volume of 1 cm3

Compare volume
What is the volume of each shape?
a)

1 Whitney and Tommy have each made a shape using cubes.

Each cube has a volume of 1 cm3
volume = cm3 volume = cm3
Whitney Tommy
b)

volume = cm3 volume = cm3

c)
a) What is the volume of Whitney’s shape? cm3

b) What is the volume of Tommy’s shape? cm3

c) Whitney and Tommy are comparing the volumes of their shapes. volume = cm3 volume = cm3

My shape has a d)
greater volume because
it is taller.
Whitney My shape has a
greater volume because Tommy
I used more cubes.

Who do you agree with? volume = cm3 volume = cm3

Explain your answer.

Tick the shape with the greater volume in each pair.

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3 Write <, > or = to compare the volumes of the shapes. 5 Dora and Ron have each made a shape using cubes.
Dora Ron

a)

My shape has
a greater volume because it
has more cubes.
Dora
b) Do you agree with Dora?
Talk about it with a partner.

6 Amir, Eva and Alex have made shapes out of centimetre cubes.
a) Amir has made this shape.

c)

What is the volume of Amir’s shape? cm3

b)
4 Here are some shapes made from cubes. I used 24 cubes
A B C D E to make my shape.

What is the volume of Eva’s shape? cm3

c)
The volume of my
shape is greater than Amir’s
but less than Eva’s.
Put the shapes in ascending order of volume.
What could the volume of Alex’s shape be? cm3
Compare answers with a partner.
Make your own shapes for a partner to put in order.
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 Thursday Page 8

2 Here are some 3D shapes.

Estimate volume

Rosie uses cubes to estimate the volume of each shape.

1 Rosie is using cubes to estimate the volume of a triangular prism.
Each cube has a volume of 1 cm3
a) Tick the representation that will give Rosie the best estimate for
the volume of the cube.

Estimate the volume of the cube. cm3

b) Tick the representation that will give Rosie the best estimate for
a) Why do you think Rosie stacked her cubes like this? the volume of the hexagonal prism.
b) The volume of each cube is 1 cm3
Work out an estimate for the volume of the triangular prism.
Show your workings.

Estimate the volume of the hexagonal prism. cm3

volume cm3 c) Tick the representation that will give Rosie the best estimate for
the volume of the square based pyramid.
c) Why is the answer only an estimate?

d) Do you think the estimate is more or less than the

actual volume?
Estimate the volume of the square based pyramid. cm3
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3 Jack has used cubes to estimate the volume of a cylinder. 5 Match the object to its approximate volume.

Each cube has a volume of 1 cm3

330 cm3 33,000 cm3 330,000 cm3

How did you decide?

a) Estimate the volume of the cylinder.

6 A shopkeeper is estimating the volume of a fridge.

The fridge holds 40 bottles of water.
volume cm3 The shopkeeper uses cubes to
estimate the volume of one bottle
b) Will the actual volume be greater than or less than your estimate?
of water.
Each cube has a volume of 10 cm3
Explain your answer.

Wa t e r

4 Use cubes to estimate the volume of objects in your classroom.

Record some of your answers here. Estimate the volume of the fridge.

cubes cubes

volume cm3
cubes cubes
Does this mean that all fridges have the same volume?
Compare answers with a partner.
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2 Dora has a small carton of juice.

Estimate capacity
She pours the full carton of juice into a glass.

250 ml
1 Match the container to its approximate capacity.

250 ml
Estimate the capacity of the glass.

capacity ml

Compare your estimate with a partner’s.

500 ml

3 Teddy has a bottle of water.

He pours the full bottle of water into a jug.

1 litre

Wa t e r

5 litres 500 ml

Estimate the capacity of the jug.

Give your answer in both millilitres and litres.
10 litres
capacity ml capacity l

How did you decide? Talk about it with a partner. Compare your estimates with a partner’s.
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4 Each glass contains 200 ml of juice. 6 Whitney is estimating the capacity of a fish tank.

Estimate the capacity of each glass. She has 9 full bottles of water.

a) d)
I used the water
from 8 full bottles to fill
the fish tank.

capacity ml capacity ml
Whitney empties the 9th bottle into jugs to help her work out the
capacity of the tank.
b) e)

600 ml 600 ml 600 ml 600 ml

capacity ml capacity ml

c) f)

Estimate the capacity of the fish tank.

Give your answer in litres.

capacity ml capacity ml
litres
Compare your estimates with a partner’s.
Is the actual capacity likely to be more or less than your estimate?

5 Dexter is filling a beaker with sand.

1 litre

7 Estimate the capacity of objects in your classroom.

So far I
have poured five full Sand Compare answers with a partner.

bags of sand into

the container.

Estimate the capacity of one of the bags.

capacity ml
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