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Worksheet: Measurement (Reading a Standard Ruler)

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this math worksheet, students learn to read a standard ruler to the nearest one sixteenth of an inch. Students examine a ruler drawing and answer 4 questions.
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Cooking with Math

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders practice multiplication and division with cooking recipes. In this math lesson, 4th graders look at a recipe and change it so that it works for twice as many people or half as many people. 
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Measurement to an Eighth of an Inch Worksheet

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this measurement math worksheet, students write the distance each of nine letters is from the left end of the ruler to the closest eighth of an inch using the ruler pictured on the page. They solve 3 short words problems based on the...
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Food Math

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore healthy habits by completing caloric measurement activities. In this food choice lesson plan, 4th graders discuss what types of foods give you protein or fat and utilize a food chart to measure caloric intake....
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Measurements in Sports

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders study measurement problems. In this geometry lesson, 6th graders discuss the different types of measurement used in sports and answer questions regarding measurement problems in sports.
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The Case of the Biological Biosphere: Health, Math, Technology

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students investigate various aspects of the human body  in this imaginative Tree House Detective episode about the biological biosphere. In a series of They take measurements, analyze data, and use technology. The lessons revolve around...
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Linear, Square, and Cubic Units

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Linear, square, and cubic units are all investigated as different types of packages are measured. The teacher will need supplies such as a box of aluminum foil, a package of ribbon, and a bag of mulch. The class determines the...
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Body Balance

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Examine measurable characteristics of objects to build an understanding of the different ways you can discuss an object's size when comparing it to other objects. After whole group instruction, the class compares and organizes several...
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Getting It Right!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students construct right triangles, measuring the sides and recording the measurements in spreadsheets. They analyze their measurements for patterns and research the Internet for information on Pythagoras.
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Length, Perimeter, and Area

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore the concepts of length, perimeter, and area. In this math lesson, students use Shape Explorer to practice finding length, perimeter, and area.
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Garden Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine the metric system. For this metric system lesson, 2nd graders compare measurements of common objects in metric units. Students compete in a garden scavenger hunt.
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Are You Sleeping?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Here is a measurement lesson focusing on length. Learners use their feet as the unit of measurement for furniture in the classroom and at home, and sketch the pieces of furniture they measured.
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Can You Build It?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students investigate the concept of perimeter. They design there own figure and measure the perimeter of it. The lesson is given the context of the shape being a path that is traveled by a ladybug. This provides the shape of the plane...
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How Tall is the Average 6th Grader?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Upper grade and middle schoolers explore mathematics by participating in a measuring activity. They hypothesize on what the average height of a male or female 6th grader is and identify ways to find the average mathematically. Learners...
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Shoe Showdown

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use rulers to measure their shoe size in inches and centimeters. They then enter the class shoe measurements into an excel data base and graph the results of both to make the comparison.
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Is Your Money Rolling Away?

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Young scholars demonstrate how to solve word problems. They will watch the video "Math Can Take You Places" and identify three problem solving strategies.
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Shaking Up Ice Cream

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Upper graders use a variety of tools to measure liquid and solid ingredients in an ice cream making recipe. Following written and oral directions and accurately timing themselves forms the basis of this lesson.
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Area Applet

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Elementary math classes calculate the area of a shape and explain the correlation between the size of the perimeter and the areas that can be contained within that perimeter. They also explain the effect the shape of the perimeter has on...
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Measurement

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create two prisms out of the same paper. They calcuate the number of centimeter cubes needed to fill each prism. They discover the concept of volume.
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A Special Relationship

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars discover the relationships of the lengths of the sides of right triangles and right triangles using a series of drawings on dot paper. They investigate and solve problems of standard (customary and metric units) and...
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Projectiles

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners measure the angle and distance of an arc. In this projectile lesson, students observe arcs created by water guns, bow and arrows, and slingshots, then work in small groups and use protractors and strings to measure the angle and...
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Capacity: Gallon, Quart, Pint, Cup

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young measurers identify gallons, quarts, pints, and cups, then determine equivalent measurements for capacity using customary measuring tools.
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Trees

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students investigate the parts of a tree, measure its circumference and the length and width of its longest branch. The data is compiled and placed into a bar graph.
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I Will Meet You In The Middle

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use the 50 States Quarter Reversal as a context of learning a curriculum concept based from the state of Utah. They research the concepts of cause and effect. Also, they use customary units of measurement to find length and...

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