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- [Voiceover] Let's say we're having a birthday party and these are the kids at the birthday party. And all the kids, they have a bunch of different ages, and what we are curious about is how many kids of each age do we have? Well, to help think about that, we can draw what is called a line plot. And I've always viewed the term line plot a bit confusing because in my brain you use a lot more dots than you use lines, but let's look at what a line plot is. So what I will do is I will draw, I guess this involves a line right over here, I'll draw a line down here, and then I'll create buckets for each of the ages. So let's see, I have students here from age three all the way to age seven, so I could say age three, age four, age five, age six, and age seven. I don't have to go to two, or I don't have to go to eight. There aren't any kids in those ages. Although, I could if I want. And then I look at, well, how many kids do I have of each age? Well, I have one person attending the party, Diya, she's age three. So I would put, I might put an X here, or I could put a dot here. Different line plots would put different things here. But that shows me that I have, this partier (chuckles) is age three right over here. Now I have Imran, age five. So that's someone right over here who'd be at age five. You could think of this dot, this represents Imran, who's age five. Then you have Surya, who's also age five. He's also age five, so that means we have a second person at the party who is age five. So under age five, we now have two people. This is Imran and this is Surya. Then you have Jasper, who is six. So that's one person who is age six. Then you also have Vikram, who is age six. Whoops, let me do that in that same color. We also have Vikram, who is age six. So let's put him in the age six bucket. Then we have Luke, who is seven. Luke, who is seven. So that would be a dot right over there. And then finally I have Anya, who's also age six, who is also age six. So just like that, I was able to take all of the data that I have in this table, and I'm able to put it on this line plot. And the reason why this line plot is useful is it helps us look at, well, how many of each age do we have? It might be a little bit more confusing to just look at the table here because when you look at the line plot, it's very clear. Hey look, there's no one here who is age four. And look, we have the most people who are age six. And if we asked ourselves a question, if you didn't even have this. Actually, let me just even take it away. If we didn't even have that there, if we didn't have the table and we just had the line plot, and if someone said hey look, you know, these are ages right over here. This has our ages in years old, and each dot represents a student who's at the party. So based on this line plot, how many people are more than five years old? Well, you could look at this and you could say, okay, more than five years old. That would be six years old or seven years old. It's not showing anyone who's eight, nine, 10, 11, and on, and on, and on, and on. So let's look at all the dots. Let's look at all the dots here that are more than five years old. There are three six-year-olds and there's one seven-year-old. So there are one, two, three, four people who are old than five years old. You could go the other way around. You could say how many people are less than five years old? Well then you could say, okay, less than five years old would be either three years old or four years old. And when you look at those dots, you see there's only one dot. Only one person attending the party is less than five years old. Hopefully, you found that interesting.

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A line plot is a graph that displays data using a number line. To create a line plot, ​first create a number line that includes all the values in the data set. Next, place an X (or dot) above each data value on the number line.

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Converting Mass Units- milligrams, grams, kilograms

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Converting Mass Units- milligrams, grams, kilograms

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Measurement Vocabulary

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Georgia measurement vocabulary for 5th grade Learn with flashcards, games, and more — for free.

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MGSE5.MD.1 Convert among different-sized standard measurement units (mass, weight, length, time,etc.) within a given measurement system (customary and metric) (e.g., convert 5cm to 0.05m), and use these conversions in solving multi-step, real world problems.Represent and interpret data.MGSE5.MD.2 Make a line plot to display a data set of measurements in fractions of a unit (1/2, 1/4,1/8). Use operations on fractions for this grade to solve problems involving information presented in lineplots. For example, given different measurements of liquid in identical beakers, find the amount of liquid each beaker would contain if the total amount in all the beakers were redistributed equally.Geometric Measurement: understand concepts of volume and relate volume to multiplication anddivision.MGSE5.MD.3 Recognize volume as an attribute of solid figures and understand concepts of volumemeasurement.a. A cube with side length 1 unit, called a “unit cube,” is said to have “one cubic unit” of volume,and can be used to measure volume.b. A solid figure which can be packed without gaps or overlaps using n unit cubes is said to have avolume of n cubic units.MGSE5.MD.4 Measure volumes by counting unit cubes, using cubic cm, cubic in, cubic ft, andimprovised units.

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MGSE5.MD.1 Convert among different-sized standard measurement units (mass, weight, length, time,etc.) within a given measurement system (customary and metric) (e.g., convert 5cm to 0.05m), and use these conversions in solving multi-step, real world problems.Represent and interpret data.MGSE5.MD.2 Make a line plot to display a data set of measurements in fractions of a unit (1/2, 1/4,1/8). Use operations on fractions for this grade to solve problems involving information presented in lineplots. For example, given different measurements of liquid in identical beakers, find the amount of liquid each beaker would contain if the total amount in all the beakers were redistributed equally.Geometric Measurement: understand concepts of volume and relate volume to multiplication anddivision.MGSE5.MD.3 Recognize volume as an attribute of solid figures and understand concepts of volumemeasurement.a. A cube with side length 1 unit, called a “unit cube,” is said to have “one cubic unit” of volume,and can be used to measure volume.b. A solid figure which can be packed without gaps or overlaps using n unit cubes is said to have avolume of n cubic units.MGSE5.MD.4 Measure volumes by counting unit cubes, using cubic cm, cubic in, cubic ft, andimprovised units.

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MGSE5.MD.5 Relate volume to the operations of multiplication and addition and solve real world and
mathematical problems involving volume.
a. Find the volume of a right rectangular prism with whole-number side lengths by packing it with
unit cubes, and show that the volume is the same as would be found by multiplying the edge
lengths, equivalently by multiplying the height by the area of the base. Represent threefold
whole-number products as volumes, e.g., to represent the associative property of multiplication.
b. Apply the formulas V = l × w × h and V = b × h for rectangular prisms to find volumes of right
rectangular prisms with whole number edge lengths in the context of solving real world and
mathematical problems.
c. Recognize volume as additive. Find volumes of solid figures composed of two non-overlapping
right rectangular prisms by adding the volumes of the non-overlapping parts, applying this
technique to solve real world problems.

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Conversion Gives Students the Chills

Few lessons I cover as a teacher are more dreaded by students and parents alike than teaching how to convert measurement units. Changing between the cups and gallons used in the United States can be tricky enough, let along bringing in the metric system used by other countries. Fortunately, changing units doesn't have to be a frightening experience. I have found four ways to make converting measurement a little less scary: telling a story, using the body as a ruler, showing pictures to help students visualize, and using strategies to know if you multiply or divide.

Tell a Story

From a student's perspective, measurement units are often seen as something adults made up to make children suffer. They can seem useless and unhelpful to students, and they can wonder they even have to learn about changing measurement units at all. Using measurement in stories and real-world situations can help students see that changing units is not pointless after all.

Choosing a story or situation based on your child's interest is a sure way to make measurement a little more welcome. Students who enjoy sports might enjoy changing Olympic Records from metric units into feet or miles. Or, students could write their own metric mysteries by creating a story that uses a metric measurement in some way. Then they could then calculate the measurement conversion to put in the answer. The more the measurements matter to your child, the more motivated they will be.

The Body as a Ruler

Another way I help make measurement conversions a little more tangible is to make it hands on, literally. I have students measure their hands using metric units, and then they see how many hands it takes to measure a familiar object, like the height of the classroom door. By the time they have finished finding the metric answer, those centimeters are not quite so intimidating.

Really, anything that matters to a student makes a great ruler, from a pet to their room at home. However, I usually keep the focus on the students themselves. The measuring your hand activity can also be scaled down to the length of a fingertip (millimeters) or scaled up to the length of an arm (meters). To make measurement conversion personal and more meaningful, what better way than using an actual person?

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

The friendly face at the beginning of this post is more than just a picture. Mr. Gallon shows the power of a picture in helping students see the connections between different units. Students can hear the conversion rules over and over (I should know, I've tried), but a good picture can help the information click in a way that numbers alone never can.

Of course, even the best of images won't speak to everyone. Another of my favorite ways to show US liquid measurement is the following. Seeing all the parts nested within one another helps make it clear that the smaller units are the building blocks of the larger ones.

When to Multiply or Divide

Aside from remembering how many centimeters are in a meter or how many kilometers are in a mile, the other tricky part of converting is knowing whether to multiply or divide with the conversion number. For example, say we know something weights 3 kilograms, and we want to know how many grams this is. We can check that there are 1,000 grams in 1 kilogram, but now what?

To help, I have my students ask themselves this question: are ending up with a unit that is bigger or smaller? In the case of the 3 kilograms, we are ending up with grams, which are smaller than the kilograms we started with. So since we are "breaking apart" the big kilograms into smaller grams, we multiply 3 x 1000 to get 3,000 grams. Multiplying gives us more, and we have more in the end if our unit gets smaller.

And this also works in reverse. Say we start with 3,000 grams and need to know how many kilograms that is. 1,000 grams still equal 1 kilogram, but this time we are "trading in" our smaller grams for lager kilogram at the end. So this tells us to divide 3,000 by 1,000 to get 3 kilograms. Dividing gives us less, and we have less in the end if our unit gets bigger.

Converting Units Doesn't Have to Be Unbearable

Using one or more of the tips above can make converting measurement units a little easier for students and the parents who are supporting them in their studies. As unlikely as it might sound, converting measurement units can even provide some quality time as a family. So pull out that metric ruler, see who has the longest pinky in millimeters, and everyone might just end up with a smile.
Ryan S. is an English / Language Arts and Math teacher in both the classroom and online worlds. His favorite students, however, are his three young children.

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Customary Conversions- Inches to Feet, Feet to Inches- Mr J

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Customary Conversions- Inches to Feet, Feet to Inches- Mr J

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Convert Between Inches and Feet | Inches to Feet and Feet to Inches

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