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Measures using non-standard units

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Ages 3-6

Measuring Height with Classroom Objects

| Download Math Vitamin :   PDF   Notebook Great tracing yesterday! Today we are going to do some non-standard measuring! Use your body outline from yesterday and measure how tall you are.

What are you going to measure with today? Markers? Pattern blocks? Pencils? Scissors? Legos? Blocks? Check in with your teacher if you have another idea.

Record and label your measurements and write your equations on your body outline.

Measuring with Classroom Objects

| Download Math Vitamin :   PDF   Notebook The renovations of the shops are complete! They're almost ready to be filled with tools and supplies. Once again your math skills are needed. The shop keepers need to figure out where everything will fit. It's time to flex our measuring muscles...

Let's practice measuring. Pick one thing in the room that you will use to measure with. Now use that item to measure:
A BENCH
THE CIRCLE RUG
A BOOKSHELF
A TABLE
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