Year 6

Decimals and measures: The volume of cubes and cuboids

Year 6

Decimals and measures: The volume of cubes and cuboids

warning

These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Switch to our new teaching resources now - designed by teachers and leading subject experts, and tested in classrooms.

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will learn to calculate the volume of cubes and cuboids and then apply this to volume problems.

Licence

This content is made available by Oak National Academy Limited and its partners and licensed under Oak’s terms & conditions (Collection 1), except where otherwise stated.

Loading...

3 Questions

Q1.
Calculate the area of the triangle.
An image in a quiz
10.545 cm²
18.13 cm²
21.09 cm²
Correct answer: 9.065 cm²
Q2.
Calculate the area of the parallelogram.
An image in a quiz
1,190 mm²
Correct answer: 2,380 mm²
2,652 mm²
Q3.
Calculate the area of the rectangle in mm².
An image in a quiz
Correct answer: 2,054 mm²
20.54 mm²
205.4 mm²

7 Questions

Q1.
Find the volume of the shape if each block represents 1 cm³.
An image in a quiz
4 cm
4 cm²
Correct answer: 4 cm³
Q2.
Find the volume of the shape if each block represents 1 cm³.
An image in a quiz
6 cm³
Correct answer: 7 cm³
8 cm³
Q3.
What is the volume of this cuboid?
An image in a quiz
14.5 cm³
75 cm
Correct answer: 75 cm³
Q4.
Some measurements are missing from the table below. Which measurement completes the table for a?
An image in a quiz
Correct answer: 10 m
2 cm
2 m
72 cm³
Q5.
Some measurements are missing from the table below. Which measurement completes the table for b?
An image in a quiz
10 m
2 cm
2 m
Correct answer: 72 cm³
Q6.
Some measurements are missing from the table below. Which measurement completes the table for c?
An image in a quiz
10 m
Correct answer: 2 cm
2 m
72 cm³
Q7.
Find the volume of the cube A and cuboid B.
An image in a quiz
Correct answer: 224 cm³
320 cm³
54 cm³