Curated OER
Math: Road Trip
Twelfth graders use road maps to calculate the distance between two locations. They estimate the cost for fuel and the miles per gallon. They consider other factors such as geography, road conditions, and traffic that may impact the cost.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Review 4: Converting Measurements Using Ratios
Why are there two systems of measurement? How do we move between units in the same system? Students create and use foldables to convert measurement units.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Easy Equivalent Measures
Easy Equivalent Measures is an exciting, engaging lesson that will make this unpopular, hard skill EASY for your students. We will use Input/Output charts to demonstrate our knowledge of equivalent measures. This lesson will support the...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: How to Convert Ounces to Pounds
A lesson containing a warm up, guided group work, and practice for students to understand how to convert ounces to pounds.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Customarily Speaking and Measuring
Students will be using a hands-on approach to learning about length, capacity, and weight. This instructional activity contains a detailed plan, slides containing notes and problems, and a video tutorial.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee,ns,rp; 8.ee,f Pennies to Heaven
The goal of this task is to give students a context to investigate large numbers and measurements. Students need to fluently convert units with very large numbers in order to successfully complete this task. The total number of pennies...
University of Houston
University of Houston: Measurement Teacher Activities: Length Lessons
This lesson plan offers an opportunity for learners to learn to measure length by fractions of an inch, inches, feet, yards and also change one unit of length to another.
University of Houston
University of Houston: Measurement Teacher Activities: Capacity Lessons
This lesson plan offers opportunities for learners to gain experience working with cups, pints, quarts and gallons. It also provides many resources to use with students.
University of Texas
Inside Mathematics: Fruits and Vegetables [Pdf]
This task challenges a student to use understanding of measurement to convert accurately between units of weight.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Measurement: Metric Conversions
This lesson plan has a game to help pupils convert to various linear metric units and learn their abbreviations.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: N q.a.1: Fuel Efficiency
The problem requires students to not only convert miles to kilometers and gallons to liters but they also have to deal with the added complication of finding the reciprocal at some point. Aligns with N-Q.A.1.
Google
Google for Education: Degrees and Radians
Students label key points on the unit circle in both radians and degrees. They count their way around the circle in 30-degree increments, and then again in increments of radians. Finally, students go through a similar process for angles...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: The Mole in Chemistry: Determining the Number of Atoms in Everyday Items
Students explore the concept of the mole as a measure of quantity. They build spreadsheets that allow them to convert between moles, grams, and atomic mass units for given quantities of everyday items, elements, and simple chemical...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Power to the 10! Conversions With the Metric System
Sixth graders will be using ratio tables to convert units of metric measurements and looking for patterns to help make the problems easier.