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🧮 5th Grade · Math5.MD.A.1Unit 9: Measurement conversions & line plots

Metric conversions

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🎯 Objective: Students convert metric units using powers of 10.

Lesson outline

  1. Metric staircase; multiply/divide by powers of 10.
  2. Practice.
  3. Problems.
  4. Exit: 2.4 km = ? m.

Lesson 2 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

5.MD.A.1

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 5 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Convert units within a system
  • Make line plots with fractions and solve problems

✅ 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 & line plots”

  1. Customary conversions
  2. Metric conversions
  3. Line plots with fractions

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