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What are some creative ways of teaching/explaining this?
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Usually toward the end of this lesson, I’ll bust out my cereal, which I eat every day before school (Shredded Wheat. I keep it healthy) and measure the dimensions for the class. The students often find it fascinating knowing what their teachers eat. I tend to round to the nearest whole number, maybe throwing in a .5 or something, and we calculate the surface area and/or volume.
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When discussing the relevance of volume I like to point out it’s relation to strength. For example, some roller coasters are built using a handful of thick steel beams, while others are built using a multitude of pieces of wood. They use so many pieces of wood to compensate for their lack of volume, while the steel beams are so voluminous that they only need a handful to keep the coaster sturdy.
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