Free interactive math game: Irregular Cube Stack — Count unit cubes. Part of the Solid Geometry category on MathKite.
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.
Finding how much room an uneven stack of cubes fills.
Count the cubes layer by layer and add the layers together.
Layers of 6, 4 and 2 cubes make a volume of 12 cubic units.
Using a length times width times height formula. The stack is not a box, so counting is the way.