# data[].attributes.body
https://mrnussbaum.com/horrendous-soup-online-game

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Horrendous Soup is a fun game in which students have to make a recipe for the most disgusting soup they can imagine. Students progress through the game by adding ingredients to the soup. Some of the ingredients are measured in capacity, some are measured in mass, and some are measured in distance (for example, the recipe might call for a certain amount of millimeters of toothpaste or tree branch). Given this is a bit far-fetched, but still a perfect way to reinforce metric conversion skills. To successfully print out the recipe, students must demonstrate the ability to convert the amounts of ingredients to other metric units. For example, liters to milliliters and vice versa, grams to milligrams and vice versa, and millimeters to centimeters to meters. See demonstration video for more information.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.authors[].name
2023 MrNussbaum.com is a copyright of the Nussbaum Education Network,LLC.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Mr. Nussbaum - Horrendous Soup - Online Game

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Horrendous Soup is a fun game in which students have to make a recipe for the most disgusting soup they can imagine. Students progress through the game by

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-fourth-grade-math/imp-measurement-and-data-2/imp-estimating-length/v/us-customary-distance

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Let's talk a little bit about the US customary units for distance. If we go to a human scale, the most typical used unit in the US customary system would be the foot. And as you could imagine, the term foot, and if you have many of them, you are now talking about feet, comes from the same word on the human body. We have a foot or we have two feet. Now, not everyone's feet are the same length. But the length of a foot is roughly a little bit larger than most people's feet. And there are definitely people whose feet are the size of a foot. And if you're in the US, you've probably heard of people measuring their height in terms of feet. So for example, a slightly above average man of slightly above average height would have a height of 6 feet. So for example, right over here, this gentleman right over here was slightly above average height. His height might be 6 feet. And that might also be his wing-span. So it would be a distance something like that. If you wanted to measure things that are a little bit smaller, say smaller than a foot, or if we wanted to measure parts of a foot, then you would go to the inch. And the relationship between the foot and the inch is that 12 inches are equal to one foot. So for example, this little mouse right over here, it might be reasonable to measure it in inches. On this scale, an inch might be, depending on the size of the mouse, an inch might be something like that. And it's also useful for measuring things like human height, because very few people are a whole number of feet. They're usually some fraction of feet. So for example, I am 5 feet and 9 inches. And sometimes this is denoted as 5, and you have this apostrophe here, one apostrophe, and then 5 foot 9 inches, and this is two apostrophes, kind of saying hey, you're going to the next unit down. These are the inches right over here. Now if you want to go to things that are larger than maybe human scale, we have units for that as well, including the yard. The yard is equal to 3 feet. And 3 feet, well, each foot is 12 inches, so this is the same thing as 36 inches. And this is most typically used for measuring distances of a lot of some kind. And in the United States, most famously for in football. So your regulation-size football field, the playing field, the distance between the end zones, is exactly 100-- I know you can't see my writing there-- is exactly 100 yards. This distance right over here. Right between the end zone. Now, if you want to measure even longer distances, that's where we go to the mile. And all of these units are ancient units, going back, actually, thousands of years. And the mile, based on the reading I've found, was even used in Roman times. And actually, that's some of the first examples of this term being used. And it really comes from the same root word as 1,000, of mil, of 1,000 footsteps of a Roman soldier. And now, a standard mile is exactly 5,280 feet. And if you wanted to figure out this in inches, you could just multiply by 12. But just to get a sense of a mile, here is a mile on this map of New York. So if you wanted to put it right on Manhattan, this distance right over here is about a mile. So you want to measure really far distances, either from one point in a city to another, or maybe even the distance between cities, or maybe even the size of the planet, or even the distance from the Earth to the moon, or something like that, you will hear that referenced in miles, even the distance between the Earth and the sun. People say it's 93 million miles. If you're talking about maybe, a plot of land, you want to measure its dimensions, or you're talking about a football field, then yards feel appropriate. If you're kind of getting to human scale, well, human scale on one level, but you could get a little bit larger if you're maybe talking about the height of a building or something like that, or you're still talking about measurement of say, a plot of land, you will still hear people talk in terms of feet. And if you're measuring either parts of a foot, or things that are smaller than a foot, that's when inches come into play.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
U.S. customary units: distance (video) | Khan Academy

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Let's talk a little bit about the US customary units for distance. If we go to a human scale, the most typical used unit in the US customary system would be the foot. And as you could imagine, the term foot, and if you have many of them, you are now talking about feet, comes from the same word on the human body.

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-fourth-grade-math/imp-measurement-and-data-2/imp-estimating-mass/v/us-customary-weight

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Let's talk a little bit about the US customary units of weight. So the one that's most typically used is the pound, especially for things of kind of a human scale. And to understand what a pound is, most playing balls are roughly about a pound. So, for example, a soccer ball-- my best attempt to draw a soccer ball. So let's say that this is a soccer ball right over here. And then of course it has some type of pattern on it. So you could imagine a soccer ball is about a pound. So it's roughly one pound. And a pound will often be shorthanded with this "lb." right over here. So it's about a pound. A football, an American football, is also a little under a pound. But we could say it is about a pound, just so we get a sense of what a pound actually represents. Now, if you want to go to scales smaller than a pound, you would think about using the ounce. And the relation between the ounce and the pound when we're thinking about weight is that one pound-- let me write this-- is equal to 16 ounces. Or another way of thinking about it is that 1 ounce is equal to 1/16 of a pound. And if you want to visualize things that weigh about an ounce, you could imagine a small box of matches weigh about an ounce. So a small box of matches might weigh about an ounce. Maybe a small AA battery would weigh about an ounce. But that gives you a sense of it. So if you were to take 16 of these together, they would be about the weight of a soccer ball. 16 of these things together, they would be about-- they would be about the weight of a soccer ball or a football. Now, if we want to think about weights that are larger than a pound, then we would go to the ton. And a ton is equal to-- 1 ton is equal to 2,000 pounds. And you have to be a little bit careful with the ton. We're talking about the US customary units, and this is where we're talking about 2,000 pounds. But when we're talking on a more international level, this is sometimes called the short ton. There's also a long ton. There's also the metric ton. But here we're talking about US customary units, which is the short ton. So one ton is 2,000 pounds. And to get a sense of something that weighs 2,000 pounds, or to get a sense of what 2,000 pounds is like, or what might be measured in tons, a car is a good example. Your average midsize sedan would weigh about a little under to a little over 2 tons, so a little under to a little over 4,000 pounds. If we're talking about a small van or minivans or vans or trucks, it's going to be larger than two tons. And if you think about smaller cars, you think it's going to be probably around 3,000 pounds. It's going to be less than 2 tons. So a car is going to be approximately 2 tons. So hopefully, that gives you a sense of what units you'd use in the US customary system for different scales of weights.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
U.S. customary units: weight (video) | Khan Academy

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Let's talk a little bit about the US customary units of weight. So the one that's most typically used is the pound, especially for things of kind of a human scale. And to understand what a pound is, most playing balls are roughly about a pound.

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-fourth-grade-math/imp-measurement-and-data-2/imp-estimating-volume/v/us-customary-fluid-volume

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
U.S. customary units: fluid volume (video) | Khan Academy

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Learn for free about math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history, and more. Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

# data[].attributes.body
https://mrnussbaum.com/clockworks-online-game

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.authors[].name
2023 MrNussbaum.com is a copyright of the Nussbaum Education Network,LLC.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Clockworks in an awesome way for kids of all grade levels to practice telling time. It requires students to set as many clocks as possible in two minutes.

# data[].attributes.body
https://mrnussbaum.com/zoo-designer-online-game

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Welcome to ZooDesigner. You have been hired to design five enclosures for the animals at a local zoo. You have to use your knowledge of how to calculate area and perimeter to design the correct enclosures and to earn your ZooDesigner Points. Use the blueprint area to sketch out the dimensions (area, perimeter, or area and perimeter) of the enclosure. If you design the enclosures incorrectly, the animals will escape and the zoo visitors will run for their lives. You, of course, will be fired!

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Welcome to ZooDesigner. You have been hired to design five enclosures for the animals at a local zoo. You have to use your knowledge of how to calculate ar

# data[].attributes.body
https://mrnussbaum.com/angle-invaders-online-game

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.authors[].name
2023 MrNussbaum.com is a copyright of the Nussbaum Education Network,LLC.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Mr. Nussbaum - Angle Invaders - Online Game

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
In this fun game, students must estimate angle measures to blast invading starships. Each round gets harder than the last as the margin of error decreases

# data[].attributes.body
https://mrnussbaum.com/age-of-the-angles-online-game

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Age of the Angles is an awesome application designed to reinforce protractor, angle measurement, and angle measure estimation skills. Practice using a protractor to measure angles in the "practice" mode and estimate angle measures in the "play mode." In the play mode, see how many angle measures you can successfully estimate before exhausting your 100 angle measure limit.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Age of the Angles is an awesome application designed to reinforce protractor, angle measurement, and angle measure estimation skills. Practice using a prot

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL8IcotPv4Q

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bUVjJWA6Vw

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Why the metric system matters - Matt Anticole

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY4Yoyur3X4

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
metric unit conversions shortcut: fast, easy how-to with examples

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKbmvLv-FRo

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNX-a-5jGeM&t=331s

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Math Antics - Intro to the Metric System

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n3KZR1DSEo

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGKwdHMiqCg