Content Area: Math

 

Index: 4.2D Grade 4 CPI 4

 

Standard: 4.2 - Geometry and Measurement

 

Strand: D - Units of Measurement

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 4 -  The student will incorporate estimation in measurement activities (e.g., estimate before measuring).

 

Grade: 4

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        Students read and laugh about the pictures in Counting on Frank by Rod Clement. Frank is a dog whose young owner, challenged by his father to use his brain, estimates and imagines all sorts of measurements leading to some pretty silly situations. Possible extensions are plentiful and easy to devise. As an open-ended assessment follow-up to the story, the teacher asks each of the students to make a "Counting on Frank” like estimate of how many of something (television, little sister, car, dog) would fit into their bedroom and to draw a picture showing all of them there.

 

·        Students estimate the weight of various objects in grams and then use a balance scale to check the accuracy of their measurements.

 

·        Students estimate the weight of, and then weigh the contents of a box of animal crackers, graphing their results and comparing them to the weights indicated on the packages.