Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Personal benchmarks for metric standard units of measure, mass (gram & kilogram) and liquid volume (liter), and the use of related tools (such as balance, spring scales, graduated cylinders, beakers, measuring cups) for measurement to those units.
- Characteristics of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division contexts that involve measurements.
- How to represent quantities and operations physically, pictorially, or symbolically.
- Strategies to solve one-step word problems that involve measurement.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Measure liquid volume and mass in metric standard units.
- Choose appropriate measurement tools and units of measure.
- Represent quantities and operations physically, pictorially, or symbolically,
- Use a variety of strategies to solve one-step word problems that involve measurement.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Capacity indicates the measure of the volume (dry or liquid) in a container.
- Mass indicates the amount of matter in an object and can be represented with different sized units.
Vocabulary
- Liquid volume
- Mass
- Liter
- Gram
- Kilogram
- Metric unit
- Capacity
- Matter
