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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mind Your Pints and Quarts: Making Sense of Liquid Measurement

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Elementary and middle schoolers identify different units of liquid measurement. They use the online Visual Thesaurus to learn about the relationships between units of liquid measurement.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Much Is A Gallon?

For Teachers 5th - 7th
By engaging in real life examples, learners practice measurement and conversion skills. They review a chart comparing pints, quarts, and gallons. Then, they complete a worksheet involving prices per unit. For example, they calculate how...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Radian Measure: Unit Circle Conversions

For Students 10th - 12th
Individuals investigate the relationship between radian and angle measurements by using an interactive to find the angle measurement for given radian measures. Users answer questions to convert between the two measurements.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Using Money Conversion Charts

For Students 7th - 9th
In this money conversion worksheet, students convert money from US dollars to Euros, Australian dollars and Hong Kong dollars. This one-page worksheet contains 24 problems.
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Activity
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Teach Engineering

How Big? Necessary Area and Volume for Shelter

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Teams must determine the size of cavern needed to house the citizens of Alabraska to protect them from the asteroid impact. Using scaling properties, teams first determining the number of people that could sleep in a classroom and then...
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Activity
Curated OER

Water Down the Drain

For Teachers 8th - 11th Standards
Did you know that leaky faucets waste $10 million worth of water? Conservationists perform an experiment and draw best-fit lines to explore how the US Geological Society determined this value.
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Assessment
Balanced Assessment

Pen Pals

For Students 6th - 8th
It's always nice to hear from friends. Your budding mathematicians read letters from pen pals and convert customary measurements into metric units and vice versa. They also write letters to an imaginary pen pal using metric units.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Convert Metric and Standard Units of Length

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this completing the unit conversions of length worksheet, students convert customary units of inches, feet, and yards, and metric units of millimeters, centimeters, meters, and kilometers. Students solve 20 problems.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Customary Units of Length, Weight, and Capacity Reteaching Worksheet

For Students 4th
For this customary units of length, weight, and capacity reteaching worksheet, 4th graders review the customary measures in a box at the top of the page. They use the review information to make conversions in 9 problems. They use the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Customary Measurement Conversions

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discover in hands-on activities the relationships between the measures. They work in groups to create conversion tables using familiar measuring tools. Students solve problems requiring conversions.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Applying Fractions - Family Activity

For Students 6th - 8th
In this fractions worksheet, middle schoolers solve 10 short answer problems. Students find items around their home and weigh them. Middle schoolers convert units from one unit to another in the customary system.
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Assessment
Charleston School District

Pre-Test Unit 8: Geometry Applications

For Students 8th Standards
What does a squared and b squared make? C squared of course! The pre-test assesses eighth graders' knowledge of the Pythagorean Theorem, application of the Pythagorean Theorem, and finding volumes of solids. 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Fractions and Decimals

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Voila! Young mathematicians become magicians as they turn fractions into decimals and decimals into fractions. They reference examples before completing 37 transformations on their own. The first 16 are fractions with a denominator of...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Complete the Unit Conversions

For Students 4th - 5th
In this measurements worksheet, students review the conversion chart for feet to inches, yard to feet, centimeter to millimeter, meter to centimeters, and kilometer to meters. Students then convert 20 measurements.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Unit Conversions of Metric Units of Length

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this converting metric units of length worksheet, students convert centimeters, meters, and kilometers. Students solve 20 problems.
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Activity
National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network

The Micro and Macro World Around Us

For Teachers K - 12th
Don't let your eyes play tricks on you ... use scale to keep your eyes in check! Young scholars observe images without scale and try to identify the structure. Then, they look at the same image with a scale bar and assess whether their...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Capacity Conversions

For Students 4th - 5th
In this conversions worksheet, students convert smaller metric units to larger units, using the work space provided. Answers are included on page 2.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Measuring Activities

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars measure using both metric and standard measures. They convert from one standard to the next while measuring distances in their home or classroom.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Money

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Converting money is both practical and an excellent gateway into future math concepts, and scholars get plenty of practice here! There are four sections, each with 12 values for them to convert. First, they change cent values into...
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Lesson Plan
National Research Center for Career and Technical Education

Health Science: Back to Basics

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
This lesson focuses on unit conversion, proportions, ratios, exponents, and the metric system. Discuss measurement with your math class and demonstrate how to solve several health-science word problems. Give learners a chance to visit an...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Arithmetic: Decimals, Fractions and Percentages

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students recall word problems that involve place value along with conversion of decimals to fractions. Included are hundreds, tens, units, tenths, hundredths and thousandths. They independently work on a variety of equations converting...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Nursing Math Worksheet

For Students Higher Ed
In this nursing math learning exercise, students solve 16 problems using metric conversions. They determine quantities of medications given to patients and amount of medications given through simple metric conversions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Common Measuring System

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review the units of measurement of the Metric system. They translate a standard recipe into one using metric units. One group prepares the recipe using standard measurements and another prepares it using Metric units. They...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Customary Units of Length Conversions

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this converting customary units of length worksheet, students convert inches, feet, and yards. Students solve 20 problems.