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🧮 4th Grade · Math4.MD.A.2Unit 10: Measurement conversions

Time conversions

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🎯 Objective: Students convert hours, minutes and seconds and solve elapsed-time problems.

Lesson outline

  1. Table: 1 h = 60 min, 1 min = 60 s.
  2. Solve schedule problems.
  3. Practice.
  4. Exit: 3 hours = ? minutes.

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📐 Standard

4.MD.A.2

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”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🕒 Hours calculator📚 All 4th Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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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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