Narrator: Brain this is Cubic!
Cubic: Cuuuuuube!
Brain: Naaaaaaw! Braaaaaain.
Narrator: Cubic has sides in length of one centimetre.
Meaning that she has a volume of one cubic centimetre.
Cubic: Cuuuuuube!
Narrator: Oh look, here come her friends!
Cubic: Cuuube!
Narrator: When Cubic and her friends join together they get an all new volume
Brain: B-braaain?
Narrator: Cubic now has three one centimetre cubes in height, width, and depth.
We can multiply the measurements of Cubic's height, width, and depth to give us the new volume.
27 cubic centimetres!
We can use this same process to figure out Cubic's volume…
…no matter how big she gets!
Cubic: DESTROY!
Brain: BRAAAAAAIN!
Narrator: Aah! Isn't it great to make new friends, Brain?
Volume
Volume is the amount of space a 3D shape takes up.
A cubic cm block takes up 1 cubic cm. This is written as 1 cm³.
You can work out the volume of a shape by multiplying height × width × depth.
If the shape is made of cubic cm blocks, you can count the cubes to find the shape's volume.
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