Irregular Cube Stack

Free interactive math game: Irregular Cube Stack — Count unit cubes. Part of the Solid Geometry category on MathKite.

Example problems

Taken from the generator that powers this exercise. A fresh set appears every time the page is opened, and the printable worksheet holds ten of them.

  1. How many unit cubes are in this stack?

About this exercise

Finding how much room an uneven stack of cubes fills.

How to solve it

Count the cubes layer by layer and add the layers together.

Worked example

Layers of 6, 4 and 2 cubes make a volume of 12 cubic units.

Common mistake

Using a length times width times height formula. The stack is not a box, so counting is the way.