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🧮 1st Grade · Math1.MD.A.2Unit 9: Measuring length

Measure with units

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🎯 Objective: Students measure lengths with paper clips or cubes laid end to end.

Lesson outline

  1. Model measuring a book with cubes — no gaps, no overlaps.
  2. Show a wrong way and fix it.
  3. Measure five objects and record.
  4. Exit: how long is your pencil in cubes?

Lesson 2 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

1.MD.A.2

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 1 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Order three objects by length
  • Measure length with same-size units, with no gaps or overlaps

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Measure lengths & tell time📚 All 1st Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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