Matching a Figure to Unit Cubes Worksheet Download
This worksheet gives a number of unit cubes and four figures, and asks which figure is built with exactly that many. It is the recognition half of the standard, where the count comes first and the picture has to be matched to it. The three wrong figures are within one or two cubes of the answer, so none can be ruled out by size alone and all four have to be counted, and every figure is drawn with the same size cube for the same reason. No figure hides a cube behind its neighbours, and each obeys gravity, so all four are structures a child could really build.
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Matching a Figure to Unit Cubes
Students are given a number of unit cubes and choose which of four figures is built with exactly that many.
About this worksheet
Students are given a number of unit cubes and choose which of four figures is built with exactly that many.
Student objectives
- Count the unit cubes in each of several figures
- Match a number of cubes to the figure it would build
- Compare figures that differ by only one or two cubes
- Recognize that two figures can look alike and still take different numbers of cubes
Everyday practice
- Count how many blocks are stacked to build a tower
- Figure out how many boxes fit inside a bigger box
- Count sugar cubes stacked in a container
- Work out how many cube-shaped pieces are in a Lego build