Common Core standard
Activities for 8.G.C.9
Real-world activities aligned to this standard.
Candy Count: Which Bag Holds the Most Candy
Leverage your students' Halloween enthusiasm with this activity, where they’ll calculate the volume of various trick-or-treat bags—ranging from rectangular prisms to spheres, cylinders, and cones to discover which...
Number Sense
Geometry
High School
How much pee is in your pool (Updated)
How much pee is in your pool? 🏊🏊 After chlorination, it has been hard to measure the quantity of pollutants in pool water. A Canadian chemist, Xing-Fang Li,...
Number Sense
Geometry
Grades 4–7
Chocolate heart-shaped raspberry cake
For Valentine's Day, bake a cake! Students calculate base area or volume of cakes made from 2 cake pan sizes and observe how the volume of the cake...
Geometry
Math and Food
Grades 6–HS
How much have doughnuts changed?
Part of the Smithsonian's Sally L. Steinberg Collection of Doughnut Ephemera -- Click on the image to see it larger. When you are working on volume in your...
Algebra
Number Sense
Grades 8–HS