Estimating Liquid Volume with Customary Units: In the Kitchen

Estimate the volume of common kitchen containers in this colorful worksheet! Students will be presented with nine different kitchen items, like a milk jug, a cooking pot, and a coffee mug. They’ll need to choose which of the two measurements is a better estimate for the liquid volume each item can hold.

This third-grade worksheet was designed to build students’ intuitive understanding of the relative size of customary units of liquid volume. Learners will also build their critical thinking and estimation skills. This practice can support later skills such as measuring liquid volume, selecting appropriate customary units, and solving measurement word problems.

For similar measurement practice, check out Choose the Right Unit: Liquid Volume and Metric Maze: Estimating Mass.