[kgartland]

I have reviewed this map extensively and it is a start. Perhaps putting my students in the driver’s seat to see the connections is the right route to go.

[kgartland]

Thanks so much for responding so quickly. I agree with the proposed language suggestion of “unit fraction side lengths.” Your added bonus of describing how you could use unit cubes is intriguing, however, it would certainly be a very small cube 🙂
Perhaps an activity could be suggested where students make unit cubes that are 1.5 by 1.5 out of grid paper (or something like that) and then use it to measure the volume as you suggest in your post.
So important to keep it concrete while they are first learning the concept rather than just multiplying l x w x h without reason.

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