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🧮 2nd Grade · Math2.MD.A.3Unit 9: Measuring length

Estimate length

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🎯 Objective: Students estimate lengths using benchmarks and check by measuring.

Lesson outline

  1. Find benchmarks: a finger is about 1 cm.
  2. Estimate then measure five objects.
  3. Compare estimates and measurements.
  4. Exit: estimate the door height.

Lesson 3 of 6 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

2.MD.A.3

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 2 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Measure length with rulers, yardsticks and meter sticks
  • Estimate lengths and compare measurements
  • Solve length problems with a number line

✅ 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

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More lessons in “Measuring length”

  1. Inches and feet
  2. Centimeters and meters
  3. Estimate length
  4. Different units, different numbers
  5. How much longer?
  6. Length on a number line

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