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Measure Lengths (Grade 3)

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Videos, examples, solutions, and lessons to help Grade 3 students learn to generate measurement data by measuring lengths using rulers marked with halves and fourths of an inch. Show the data by making a line plot, where the horizontal scale is marked off in appropriate units — whole numbers, halves, or quarters.

Common Core: 3.MD.4

Suggested Learning Targets

  • I can use a ruler to measure lengths in whole, half, and quarter inches
  • I can gather and record measurement data using whole, half, and quarter inches.
  • I can make a line plot with horizontal scale marked off in whole number, half, or quarter units.

Measure Lengths

3 MD 4
In this lesson, you will learn how to use a ruler to measure lengths in whole, half, and quarter inches.



Measuring to the nearest quarter of an inch - 3MD.4 Measuring Inches - Grade 3 Common Core Standards

Line Plots

3 MD 4
In this lesson, you will learn how to make a line plot with horizontal scale marked off in whole number, half, or quarter units. Line Plots - 3MD.4 3 md b 4
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