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Measuring Up ActivityMeasuring Up Activity
Publisher
Noyce Foundation
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Grade
K - 12th
Subjects
Math
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Resource Types
Activities & Projects
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For Teacher Use
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Duration
1 hr
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Differentiated Instruction
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Year
2014
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Measuring Up

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Teach the basics of measurement and conversion with a five-lesson resource that builds an understanding of proportion and measurement conversion from elementary through high school. Initially, young scholars use ratios to determine soup ingredients. Later lessons introduce scale of a photograph. The final lessons focus on measurement and creating a plan for measurement conversion.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

proportions, scale, measurement, ratios, multiplicative inverse

Additional Tags

math

Instructional Ideas

  • Employ the activities as performance task assessments 
  • Use the lessons as collaborative group work to encourage mathematical communication and vocabulary

Classroom Considerations

  • Requires a varying understanding of proportions, scale, and measurement conversions at each development level

Pros

  • Provides an activity at each grade level to address concepts of proportion, scale, and measurement
  • Includes a teacher guide with direct links to standards

Cons

  • None

Common Core

K.CC.A.2 K.OA.A.1 1.NBT.C.4 2.OA.A.1 3.OA.A.3 3.OA.B.6 4.NBT.B.5 5.NF.B.5.a 6.RP.A.3.a 6.EE.B.7 6.EE.C.9 7.RP.A.3 7.EE.B.4.a 8.F.B.4 HSA-CED.A.2 HSA-CED.A.3 MP2 MP3

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