Free Grade 3 Volume of Prisms Quizzes
Free Grade 3 quizzes for Volume of Prisms: 12 real questions with a full answer key and worked solutions. Volume is how much space a 3D shape takes up. For a cuboid, multiply length × width × height. Surface area is the total area of all faces.
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- UnderstandExplain volume of prisms
Explain volume of prisms accurately in a familiar context.
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- ApplyCalculate volume of prisms
Calculate volume of prisms accurately in a familiar context.
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- AnalyseCompare volume of prisms
Compare volume of prisms accurately in a familiar context.
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- EvaluateJustify volume of prisms
Justify volume of prisms accurately in a familiar context.
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Prerequisites
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How Volume of Prisms works
Volume is how much space a 3D shape takes up. For a cuboid, multiply length × width × height. Surface area is the total area of all faces.
12 practice questions
Easy to hard, 24 marks in total. Try them first, then open the answers.
- 1.Find the volume of a cuboid 4 cm × 10 cm × 7 cm.[1]
- 2.Find the volume of a cuboid 6 cm × 4 cm × 5 cm.[1]
- 3.Find the volume of a cuboid 3 cm × 8 cm × 2 cm.[1]
- 4.Find the volume of a cuboid 8 cm × 9 cm × 8 cm.[1]
- 5.Find the volume of a cuboid 4 cm × 10 cm × 9 cm.[2]
- 6.Find the volume of a cuboid 6 cm × 3 cm × 8 cm.[2]
- 7.Find the volume of a cuboid 5 cm × 2 cm × 10 cm.[2]
- 8.Find the volume of a cuboid 9 cm × 8 cm × 8 cm.[2]
- 9.Find the surface area of a cuboid 7 cm × 10 cm × 2 cm.[3]
- 10.Find the surface area of a cuboid 7 cm × 3 cm × 6 cm.[3]
- 11.Find the surface area of a cuboid 10 cm × 5 cm × 4 cm.[3]
- 12.Find the surface area of a cuboid 6 cm × 4 cm × 2 cm.[3]
Show answers and working
1. 280 cm³
Volume = length × width × height. 4 × 10 × 7 = 280 cm³.
2. 120 cm³
Volume = length × width × height. 6 × 4 × 5 = 120 cm³.
3. 48 cm³
Volume = length × width × height. 3 × 8 × 2 = 48 cm³.
4. 576 cm³
Volume = length × width × height. 8 × 9 × 8 = 576 cm³.
5. 360 cm³
Volume = length × width × height. 4 × 10 × 9 = 360 cm³.
6. 144 cm³
Volume = length × width × height. 6 × 3 × 8 = 144 cm³.
7. 100 cm³
Volume = length × width × height. 5 × 2 × 10 = 100 cm³.
8. 576 cm³
Volume = length × width × height. 9 × 8 × 8 = 576 cm³.
9. 208 cm²
Three pairs of faces: 70, 20, 14. 2 × (70 + 20 + 14) = 208 cm².
10. 162 cm²
Three pairs of faces: 21, 18, 42. 2 × (21 + 18 + 42) = 162 cm².
11. 220 cm²
Three pairs of faces: 50, 20, 40. 2 × (50 + 20 + 40) = 220 cm².
12. 88 cm²
Three pairs of faces: 24, 8, 12. 2 × (24 + 8 + 12) = 88 cm².
Worked examples
Find the volume of a cuboid 7 cm × 9 cm × 8 cm.
- Volume = length × width × height.
- 7 × 9 × 8 = 504 cm³.
- Answer: 504 cm³
Find the volume of a cuboid 8 cm × 4 cm × 6 cm.
- Volume = length × width × height.
- 8 × 4 × 6 = 192 cm³.
- Answer: 192 cm³
Find the surface area of a cuboid 2 cm × 8 cm × 7 cm.
- Three pairs of faces: 16, 56, 14.
- 2 × (16 + 56 + 14) = 172 cm².
- Answer: 172 cm²
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Common mistakes
What learners typically get wrong, and how to fix it.
Adds the dimensions instead of multiplying.
Correction: Volume = l × w × h.
Counts only three faces for surface area.
Correction: A cuboid has six faces — three matching pairs.
Teacher tips
- · Build cuboids from cubes before using the formula.
Parent tips
- · Work out how many sugar cubes fit in a box.
Real-life applications
- · Filling a fish tank, wrapping a present.
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- What should a learner already know before this?
- Start with Surface Area, Nets, Perimeter and Area. Each one has its own free lesson, worksheet and quiz.
- How is the quiz sequenced?
- Recognition first, then understanding, application, reasoning and finally mastery — the same ladder used across every free resource on the platform.
- What comes next after Volume of Prisms?
- Move on to Volume of Cylinders, Volume of Spheres, Angles, 2D Shapes, which build directly on this idea.
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