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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students solve problems involving measurement and in particular, to identify and help students who have difficulty:
Computing measurements using formulas.
Decomposing compound shapes into simpler ones.
Using right triangles and their properties to solve real-world problems.

This Dan Meyer 3 Acts elicits student curiosity around how many meatballs it would take to overflow the sauce in the pot. Students request information around diameters and heights to determine volumes of 3-D objects that could model meatballs (sphere) and a saucepan (cylinder). 

Task that models real world situations using spheres and cylinders.