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1st grade · Math · Unit 11 of 16

Measuring

Measure with cubes and clips

What your child practices

Measuring length with paper clips and cubes, comparing longer and shorter, heavier and lighter, and seeing why same-size units matter.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 1.7(A); 1.7(B); 1.7(D) · measuring length with same-size units laid end to end

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Start at the very end of the thing.
  2. Use units that are all the same size.
  3. Leave no gaps. Count the units.

Example: A book is 5 cubes long. A pencil is 8 cubes long. Which is longer? Compare 5 and 8. 8 is more than 5. Answer: The pencil

Measuring in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 11 of 16 in 1st grade Math, after One Half and before Hour & Half Hour.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which is shorter?

    Measured in paper clips

    🔑 key
    📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎
    🖍️ crayon
    📎📎

    Each picture = 1

    • 🔑key
    • 🖍️crayon

  2. Question 2

    Which is longer?

    Measured in paper clips

    🍌 banana
    📎📎
    ✏️ pencil
    📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎

    Each picture = 1

    • 🍌banana
    • ✏️pencil

  3. Question 3

    Which is the heaviest?

    • 🐭mouse
    • 🐕dog
    • 🐘elephant

  4. Question 4

    How many cubes long is the crayon?

    🖍️🟦🟦🟦
    • 9
    • 3
    • 6

  5. Question 5

    What is best for measuring a pencil?

    • 📎paper clips
    • 👣footsteps

  6. Question 6

    Where should the first cube go when you measure?

    🟦
    • In the middle
    • Right at the end
    • Anywhere at all

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