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🧮 3rd Grade · Math3.MD.B.4Unit 10: Data: scaled graphs & line plots

Line plots with fractions

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🎯 Objective: Students measure lengths to the nearest half and quarter inch and make a line plot.

Lesson outline

  1. Measure pencils to the nearest half and quarter inch.
  2. Mark each length on a class line plot.
  3. Discuss the most common length and the range.
  4. Exit: what was the most common length?

Lesson 3 of 3 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

3.MD.B.4

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 3 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Draw scaled picture and bar graphs
  • Make line plots with halves and quarters of an inch

✅ 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: Area & perimeter📚 All 3rd Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Data: scaled graphs & line plots”

  1. Scaled picture graphs
  2. Scaled bar graphs
  3. Line plots with fractions

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