Dr.

Beth McCulloch Vinson

Athens State University
PT3 Grant Funding, Summer 2000
Capacity is the amount that a
container will hold.
Volume is the amount that a
container will hold
in cubic units.
Let’s see how
many cups that
this cylinder
will hold.
 sugar
Count with me as
we pour the cups of
sugar in
6 cups
one-at-a-time.
5 cups
4 cups
The capacity of 3 cups
the cylinder is
2 cups
6 cups. 1 cup
What is the
volume of
this box?
 Let’s count
the number
of cubes that
it will take
to fill this
box.
 80 The
60 volume of
40 this box is
5 80 cubic
units.
10
15
20
These are the common measures
of capacity:

fluid ounce milliliter

cup liter
pint quart gallon
These are the common measures
of volume:

cubic inch cubic foot

cubic centimeter cubic meter
cubic yard
 A Project Developed for
Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use
Technology (PT3)
By Dr. Beth McCulloch Vinson
Athens State University, College of Education
http://www.athens.edu/vinsobm