Curated OER
End of the Year Math Terms
In this end of the year math test instructional activity, 4th graders complete problems including addition, division, measurement, decimals, and more. Students complete 22 problems.
Curated OER
Who's Going to the Convention?
Students practice planning budgets as they create a budget for ten employees of a company to attend a professional convention. They use the Internet, and spreadsheet software to complete their assignment.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Unit Conversions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online tutorial students will begin to identify and use conversion factors and to also use the method of dimensional analysis to convert between units....
Chiral Publishing
Chiral Publishing: An Introduction to Chemistry: Unit Conversions [Pdf]
Read and learn about the unit conversion analysis step and English-Metric conversion factors. Learn the steps to rounding answers from division and multiplication problems and formulas for temperature and density conversions.
Chiral Publishing
Chiral Publishing: An Introduction to Chemistry: Unit Conversions [Pdf]
Read all you need to know about unit conversions. Learn about conversion factors, calculations, and rounding answers. Practice conversion problems after reading this Chapter and test your knowledge by reviewing the fifteen chapter...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Unit Conversions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] By engaging in this activity, students will be able to perform unit conversions and properly use scientific notation.
Chiral Publishing
Chiral Publishing: An Introduction to Chemistry: Conversion Factors
Check your knowledge of conversion factors in this interactive practice activity. Practice unit conversions by filling in the number that completes them.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: On Track Unit Conversion
Students use three tracks marked on the floor, one in yards, one in feet and one in inches. As they start and stop a robot specific distances on a "runway," they can easily determine the equivalent measurements in other units by looking...
Other
Federal Highway Administration: Si (Modern Metric) Conversion Sheet
Very complete chart of conversion factors for English to SI (metric) unit measurements and SI (metric) to English unit measurements. Includes length, area, volume, mass, temperature, illumination, and force & mass (stress).
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Minnesota State Colleges and Universities: Metric System Conversions
Using inquiry-based learning, students work in groups to devise metric conversion factors after analyzing example calculations. By finding inaccuracies in the problems given, students zero in on the correct methods of doing conversions.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Analyze Units
Get independent practice working with analyzing unit rates. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
Other
Brown Math: How to Convert Units of Measurement
This site has a detailed step-by-step instruction of how to convert units of measurement. Multiplying by 1 is explained as are compound units, and finding conversion factors. The discussion is slowed down for students who may have missed...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: English to Metric Conversion: Lesson 4
This lesson shows how to convert between English to metric units for different derived units. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "English to Metric Conversion."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Introduction to Converting Units: Lesson 5
This lesson introduces the concept of a conversion factor and explains how it can be used to convert between metric to metric units as well as between English and metric units for different quantities. It is 5 of 5 in the series titled...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Converting Fractions of a Unit Into a Smaller Unit
Note that in each of these problems we are given a set of a specified size and a specified number of subsets into which it is to be divided. The questions ask the student to find out the size of each of the subsets. Students are not...
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Volume Conversion Calculator
In this volume calculator, conversions are performed by using a conversion factor. By knowing the conversion factor, converting between units can become a simple multiplication problem.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Measurement: Conversion of Customary Units of Measurement
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Convert among customary units of measurement by using factors and multiples.
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Area Conversion Calculator
Convert units of area by entering the value to convert and the from and to units.
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Acceleration Conversion Calculator
Convert units of acceleration by entering the value to convert and the from and to units.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Metric to Metric Conversion: Lesson 4
This lesson shows how to convert between metric to metric units for different derived units. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Metric to Metric Conversion."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Practice Converting Units: Lesson 4
This lesson should help a learner practice converting units. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Practice Converting Units."
Colorado State University
Metric Numbers to Remember
Look to this site for many important numbers and conversion factors used between the metric system and the customary system, such as speed of light, body temperature, distance from sun to earth, plus more.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: What Is Physics?: Key Terms
This is a glossary of key terms and definitions used in Chapter 1: What is Physics? from the online TEA Physics text.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Glossary for Introduction to Physics
This is a glossary of terms and definitions used in AP Physics: Chapter 1: Introduction to Physics.