Grade 5 - Shape and Space
Standard 5.SS.3 - Practice finding the appropriate weight of various objects. Understand the approximate scale of different metric units.
Included Skills: Measurement
Demonstrate an understanding of measuring length (mm) by: • selecting and justifying referents for the unit mm. • modelling and describing the relationship between mm and cm units, and between mm and m units. • Provide a referent for one millimetre, and explain the choice. • Provide a referent for one centimetre, and explain the choice. • Provide a referent for one metre, and explain the choice. • Show that 10 millimetres is equivalent to 1 centimetre, using concrete materials; e.g., a ruler. • Show that 1000 millimetres is equivalent to 1 metre, using concrete materials; e.g., a metre stick. • Provide examples of when millimetres are used as the unit of measure.