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Week of: January 9, 2012
Unit: Measuring Length, Perimeter, and Area
Key Understandings: Linear measurement tools can be used to estimate and measure length.
Standard units can be used to find the perimeter of a shape.
Concrete and pictorial models of square units can be used to determine the area of two-dimensional surfaces.
Guiding Questions:
Why is it important to estimate before measuring?
How can estimation be useful in real-world activities?
What is the relationship between a measurement tool and the object being measured?
What are the tools of linear mesurement?
How do you determine the correct measurement tool to use?
How can you use standard units to find the perimeter of a shape?
How is area measured?
Vocabulary of Instruction:
half fourth inch foot yard mile centimeter decimeter millimeter
meter height width length customary metric/SI linear area perimeter
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