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A Strategy for Finding Volume

Describe a way to find how many cubes will fit in a rectangular box without building the box and filling it with cubes. Your method should work for any box, whether you start with a box pattern, a picture of the box, or a description of the box in words.


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Investigations 3 in Number, Data, and Space®, Student Activity Book Unit 1 Puzzles, Clusters, and Towers Unit 2 Prisms and Solids Unit 3 Rectangles, Clocks, and Tracks Unit 4 How Many People and Teams? Unit 5 Temperature, Height, and Growth Unit 6 Between 0 and 1 Unit 7 Races, Arrays, and Grids Unit 8 Properties of Polygons