options: Modeling: students learn to choose and use appropriate mathematics and statistics to analyze real-world empirical situations, improve decisions, and report on their conclusions and the reasoning behind them.

Statistics & Probability: students learn to analyze and produce data distributions, and build understanding of univariate and bivariate data. They learn to interpret data, make statistical inferences, justify conclusions, understand rules of probability, and use probability to make decisions.

Measurement & Data: students learn to work with data and measure attributes such as time, money, length, area, and volume. They may learn to compare measurements to operations and convert between different units of measure.

Operations & Algebra: students learn to solve problems using algebraic thinking and operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. They may learn to identify and explain arithmetic patterns, evaluate or manipulate numerical expressions, and reason with equations and inequalities.

Number & Operations in Base Ten: students learn to work with the base-ten system and build place value understanding.

Ratios & Proportional Relationships: students learn to recognize, describe, represent, and reason with ratios, rates, proportional relationships, and percent.

Number & Operations - Fractions: students learn to understand fractions as numbers and may work with them using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Counting & Cardinality: students learn to know number names and the count sequence, count to tell the number of objects, and compare numbers.

Number Systems and Quantity: students learn to understand the complex number system and reason quantitatively.

Geometry: students learn to classify geometric figures by their properties, and understand and compare the relationships between them. Students develop and use formulas to compute lengths, areas, and volumes, and they use transformations to generate new shapes and compare existing ones. Geometry can be studied with and without coordinates.

Functions: students learn to define, use, and evaluate functions to model relationships between quantities.
problem_activity: Narrative
The purpose of this activity is for students to find the volume of a figure composed of two rectangular prisms and recognize that volume is additive. In the previous activity, students physically put two rectangular prisms together and then decomposed a figure into two rectangular prisms. In this activity, they are given an image of a figure composed of two rectangular prisms and asked to find the volume. They can do this in many ways. During the synthesis, connect the different strategies students used to the decomposition of the figure into two rectangular prisms.
As students experiment with different ways to group the cubes to efficiently count them, applying what they already know about the volume of rectangular prisms, they are looking for and making use of the structure of geometric objects (MP7). As students begin to generalize the idea that volume is additive, they are looking for and expressing regularity in repeated reasoning (MP8).
MLR7 Compare and Connect.
Synthesis: Invite students to prepare a visual display that shows the strategy they used to find the volume of each figure. Encourage students to include details that will help others interpret their thinking; for example, using specific language, or using different colors, shading, or arrows. Give students time to investigate each other’s work.
Advances: Representing
Launch
Groups of 2
Activity
5 minutes: individual work time
5 minutes: partner discussion
As students work, monitor for students who:
find two (or more) rectangular prisms that can be put together to make the figure and adding their volumes.
find the number of cubes in a base layer and multiplying by the number of layers, even though the base layer is not a rectangle (figure d).
Student Facing
Find the volume of each figure. Explain or show your reasoning.
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Student Response
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Advancing Student Thinking
If students did not decompose the figures into rectangular prisms, encourage them to build the figures with connecting cubes and ask, “how can you decompose the figure into two rectangular prisms?”
Activity Synthesis
Display Figures c and d.
Ask selected students to share their way of splitting each figure.
“Who broke the figure up the same way? Who broke it up differently?”
“Can you think of other ways you could break up these figures?“ (I can cut them into several layers—3 horizontal layers for c, and 5 vertical layers for d. Each layer is a rectangular prism.)


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