Counting Unit Cubes in a Figure Worksheet Download
This worksheet shows figures built from unit cubes and asks how many cubes each one took to build. It is the paper form of what the standard asks: shown a picture of a three-dimensional shape, work out what you would need to build it. Every figure is drawn so that no cube is hidden behind its neighbours, because a buried cube cannot be counted from a picture at all, and every figure obeys gravity - the cubes sit in stacks on a connected base, so each one is a structure a child could actually build out of blocks.
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Counting Unit Cubes in a Figure
Students count how many unit cubes were used to build each figure.
About this worksheet
Students count how many unit cubes were used to build each figure.
Student objectives
- Count every unit cube in a three-dimensional figure
- Account for the cubes behind and beneath the ones in front
- See a drawn figure as something that could be built out of blocks
- Read a picture of a solid as a structure rather than a flat shape
Everyday practice
- Count how many building blocks make up a tower you built
- Figure out how many sugar cubes fit in a box
- Count the number of small boxes stacked in a bigger crate
- Work out how many cube-shaped ice pieces fill a tray