Unit 5 - Lesson 12 - Grade 8: Illustrative Mahematics

Your teacher will show you some containers. The small container holds 200 beans. Estimate how many beans the large jar holds.

If the pasta box holds 8 cups of rice, how much rice would you need for the other rectangular prisms?

If the pumpkin can holds 15 fluid ounces of rice, how much do the other cylinders hold?

If the small cone holds 2 fluid ounces of rice, how much does the large cone hold?

If the golf ball were hollow, it would hold about 0.2 cups of water. If the baseball were hollow, how much would the sphere hold?

What shapes are the faces of each type of object shown here? For example, all six faces of a cube are squares.

Which faces could be referred to as a “base” of the object?

If the box of pasta fits 8 cups of rice, estimate how many cups of rice will fit inside the cylinder. Explain or show your reasoning.