Counting cubes

1. A box is 2 by 3 by 2 units. What is its volume in cubic units?

Answer:

2. How many unit cubes fit in a box 4 by 2 by 3?

• 9
• 18
• 24
• 36

3. A cube has edges of 2 cm. What is its volume in cubic centimetres?

Answer:

4. Volume measures …

• the space inside a solid
• the distance round
• the flat area
• the number of corners

5. Volume is measured in cubic units.

• True
• False

6. A box is 5 by 1 by 4 units. What is its volume in cubic units?

Answer:

7. A layer of a box holds 12 cubes and there are 3 layers. What is the volume?

• 4 cubic units
• 15 cubic units
• 24 cubic units
• 36 cubic units

8. A cube has edges of 3 cm. What is its volume in cubic centimetres?

Answer:

9. A box 2 by 2 by 2 holds 6 unit cubes.

• True
• False

10. Which box holds more, 2 by 3 by 4 or 1 by 5 by 5?

• 1 by 5 by 5
• 2 by 3 by 4
• They are the same
• You cannot tell