What Is a Foot?

Clever! Participants don square-foot cardboard shoes to mark out the rain garden plot that they have spent the last few weeks designing. In this way, they are practicing scale modeling as well! Note that this lesson is part of a unit,...

Introducing measurement can be as simple as reading a book and then using measurement tools to understand how big a foot really is. The class reads and discusses the book How Big is a Foot? by Rolf Myller, stopping often to consider the...

If you're measuring a bicycle, would you use inches, feet, or yards? What about when you measure a shoe, or a flagpole? Explore measurement with this activity, which prompts third graders to use their critical-thinking skills. Three...

 Students explore the likelihood of events.  In this logical thinking lesson plan, 3rd graders are given several scenarios and determine whether the possibility of the described event actually happening is likely, unlikely, or...

Practice measurements with your scholars using this word problem. Because the answer is explained at the bottom of the page, this would work best as an all-class warm up. Cover up the answers until after kids have shared responses. They...

What has a foot on each side and one in the middle? Measuring mathematicians are to match measurements in column A with equivalent measures in column B in order to solve the riddle! Most of the measurements in column A are written out in...

Second graders review measurements in inches and practice measuring different objects. As a class, they estimate various objects in their classroom and compare their estimation to the actual measurement. To end the lesson, they complete...

Use this customary units of length word problems worksheet to have your learners convert inches, feet, yards, and miles to solve word problems. They solve five word problems.

This is the first of a series of four lessons designed to examine and understand the concept of area. A review of area starts the lesson, along with a discussion of different attributes that can describe a rectangle. The term square unit...

Third graders explore mathematics by completing measurement worksheets. In this non-standard measurement lesson, 3rd graders discuss the average size of a human foot and practice measuring items with both a foot and traditional measuring...