Lesson 1

Lesson 1 Summary

 

 

Road construction involves the intensive use of heavy earth-moving equipment. In the photograph, a front-end loader is filling up a large truck. What volume of earth can be loaded in one scoop? What is the truck’s capacity? In this context, what units would you use to express volume and capacity?

 

In this lesson you examined volume and capacity and the units they are measured by. You practised estimating volumes and capacities using referents, and you learned that you can estimate volume and capacity by estimating dimensions or by using water displacement. You also explored situations when particular SI or imperial volume and capacity units would be used.