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One Size Fits All, Part 1
Can you tell how tall someone is just by looking at their feet? In this activity, young mathematicians measure their height, arm span, and foot size, graph their findings, and answer questions about how these measurements are related....
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Making Metric And Customary Rulers
Students create a ruler for the purpose of measurement using the standard and metric systems. The rulers are of different lengths and are compared to one another. Then students make conversions of different lengths using both systems of...
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Metric Units Of Weight 3
In this metric units of weight learning exercise, learners review, study and discuss metric and customary units of mass. Students calculate the answers to forty two questions regarding different types of metric units of weight.
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Measuring Weight in the Metric System
Elementary schoolers complete seven spaces in a table and answer six fill in the blank questions where they convert grams to kilograms or kilograms to grams. Learners solve four word problems where they convert and add metric weights in...
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Prairie Math
Students work together to build models of prairie plants. Using the model, they estimate the height and then measure them using metric and standard units. They write a fraction to represent their part of the whole set and compare and...
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Going the Distance
Estimate the value of one of the most famous irrational numbers. The hands-on lesson instructs classmates to measure the circumference and diameters of circles using yarn. The ratio of these quantities defines pi.
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Exploring Customary and Metric Systems
Students investigate and measure using the metric and customary units. In this math lesson, students investigate which method is used most worldwide, the metric or the customary. They convert from unit to the other.
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Measuring Marvels
Learners discover how units of measurement help people to categorize objects. For this measurement lesson, students discuss various units of measurement, use creativity to invent new possible units of measure, and learn the history of...
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Metric Olympic Games
Students participate in a metric Olympics. In this metric measurement lesson, students participate in 6 events that require them to predict, estimate, and measure lengths, masses, and area in metric units.
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Metric Conversions
In this metric conversion worksheet, students convert measurements within the metric system. They determine the proper procedure, multiplication or division, prior to converting. This two-page worksheet contains 11 problems.
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Measurement Conversion
In this measurement worksheet, students convert 10 metric units of measurement to standard or English units for liquids, mass, and length. This worksheet is printable and no answers are available.
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Metric System Challenge
In this measurement activity, students complete each of the statements with the correct word related to the metric system. Then they match each letter marked with a number to those at the bottom of the sheet to complete the answer to the...
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Measurements in My Life: Metric
In this math activity, students write or draw items in their homes which could be measured using the following metric units: gram, kilogram, milligram, liter, millimeter, centimeter, meter and kilometer.
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Liquid Measures
In this liquid measure activity, students convert liquid measure between milliliters, centiliters and liters. This one-page activity contains a table for students to complete requiring approximately 35 conversions.
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Estimating and Measuring Worksheet
In this estimating and measuring worksheet, students answer 8 questions in which they use estimation and then basic addition/subtraction to determine fabric measurements. The first section is strictly estimation and the second and third...
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Measuring Lesson Plans and Metric System Conversions
Students may review measurement, and metric system conversions by measuring one another and the world around them.
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A Penny for Your Height
Young scholars investigate measurement. In this fifth/sixth grade mathematics lesson, students explore the relationship between inches and centimeters. Young scholars measure their height in inches or centimeters and convert...
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Digital Smiles
Explore metric measurement, recording data, and creating an electronic spreadsheet displaying results with your math class. Scholars will measure the length of their smiles, record the measurements, and represent the results on an...
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Centimetres and Millimetres
In this measurement worksheet, students convert centimetres to millimetres and millimetres to centimetres. Normal objects are used for examples of measurement.
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Converting Units of Capacity, Weight, Mass, Time and Area
For this math worksheet, students practice converting the measurements from one form to another using capacity, weight, mass, time , and area.
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Relating to Metric Measurement
Students study metric measurements in the sport of track. In this metric measurement instructional activity, students watch a video clip to help them understand the different starting points for a track race. Students discuss the size of...
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Metric Measurement Conversion
In this metric measurement conversions learning exercise, students write equivalent measures for a set of 21 metric measurements. Worksheet contains a link to additional activities.
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Determining Largest Metric Measurement
In this metric measurement learning exercise, learners circle the greatest measurement given out of a total of 3, 15 sets total. Worksheet includes a link to additional activities.
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Metric Measurement of Length
In this metric measurement of length learning exercise, learners answer six questions about estimating, definition and use of a ruler.