🧮 4th Grade · Math4.MD.A.1Unit 10: Measurement conversions

Customary weight and capacity

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🎯 Objective: Students convert pounds to ounces and gallons to quarts, pints and cups.

Lesson outline

  1. Gallon man: 1 gal = 4 qt = 8 pt = 16 c; 1 lb = 16 oz.
  2. Practice conversions.
  3. Word problems.
  4. Exit: 3 lb = ? oz.

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📐 Standard

4.MD.A.1

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 4 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Convert larger units to smaller units in one system
  • Solve problems with area and perimeter formulas

✅ 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”.

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More lessons in “Measurement conversions”

  1. Customary length
  2. Customary weight and capacity
  3. Metric units
  4. Time conversions
  5. Area and perimeter formulas
  6. Line plots with fractions

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