Volume of cuboids, cylinders, prisms
Functional Skills Maths Level 2: Volume of cuboids, cylinders, prisms
What you'll learn
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Imagine a box of chocolates 🍫 — it's a cuboid. To find the space inside, we multiply length × width × height.
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What do we multiply to find the volume of a cuboid?
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A cuboid is 5 cm long, 3 cm wide, and 2 cm high. Let's find its volume together.
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Try this cuboid: length = 4 cm, width = 2 cm, height = 3 cm. Build it and find the volume.
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What is the volume of a cuboid with length 6 cm, width 5 cm, height 4 cm?
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A cylinder is like a can of beans 🥫. Its volume = area of the circle × height. The area of a circle is π × radius².
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A cylinder has radius 3 cm and height 5 cm. Find its volume (use π ≈ 3.14).
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For a cylinder, what is area × height?
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