Volume

For the past few weeks we have been diving into understanding what volume is all about in math.  After learning how to calculate volume for rectangular prisms, triangular prisms, and three dimensional parallelograms, students advanced to cylinders.  This is where our celebration of Pi Day came in.  We reviewed the concepts learned during Pi Day and applied them to calculating the area of a circle (pi times radius squared).  The only new concept was then multiplying this by the cylinder's height. 

After learning the formula and trying it out on a few written examples, students were given the challenge of calculating the volume of an empty can of soup (in cm).  After they applied the math, they filled the can with water and then measured it in a graduated cylinder, all in the hopes of truly understanding volume at a deeper mathematical level.