{"id":70731,"date":"2020-04-15T11:34:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T15:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=70731"},"modified":"2020-05-25T11:29:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T15:29:30","slug":"how-much-will-it-hold","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/math\/math-grades-1-3\/investigations\/how-much-will-it-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Will It Hold?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Investigations<\/h5>\n<p>Capacity refers to the maximum amount that a container can hold.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-70732\" src=\"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/assorted-color-mugs-on-brown-wooden-floating-rack-2079449.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/assorted-color-mugs-on-brown-wooden-floating-rack-2079449.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/assorted-color-mugs-on-brown-wooden-floating-rack-2079449-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/assorted-color-mugs-on-brown-wooden-floating-rack-2079449-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/assorted-color-mugs-on-brown-wooden-floating-rack-2079449-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/assorted-color-mugs-on-brown-wooden-floating-rack-2079449-165x110.jpg 165w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/assorted-color-mugs-on-brown-wooden-floating-rack-2079449-1140x760.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/assorted-color-mugs-on-brown-wooden-floating-rack-2079449-945x630.jpg 945w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/assorted-color-mugs-on-brown-wooden-floating-rack-2079449-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Materials:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Different containers\n<ul>\n<li>Some may be similar like 2 cups or mugs that are close to the same size<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Others may be different like a tall glass and a shorter, wider glass<\/li>\n<li>A small scoop (for e.g., the cap of a container, small measuring cup, measuring spoon)<\/li>\n<li>A pourable material (for example, water, sand)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Instructions:<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Ask your child to estimate the capacity of each container by predicting the number of scoops that will be needed to fill it.<\/li>\n<li>Then have him or her fill the container with scoops of the pourable material and count the number of scoops needed to fill it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Which container held the most?<\/li>\n<li>Which container held the least?<\/li>\n<li>How many times would you have to fill up the smallest container to fill the largest container?<\/li>\n<li>Why do some containers hold more than others?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(adapted from <a href=\"https:\/\/mathies.ca\/files\/Measurement%20Grade%202.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mathies.ca<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capacity refers to the maximum amount that a container can hold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72786,"menu_order":16,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70731","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70731\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}