NAME ______________________________ DATE _______________

DAILY PRACTICE

Long and Tall

  • 1 Complete the table of bridge lengths.

    (Note: 1 kilometer = 1,000 meters)

    Bridge Length (in kilometers) Length (in meters)
    Golden Gate Bridge (California)   2,737.4 m
    Jubilee Parkway (Alabama) 12.1 km  
    Lake Pontchartrain Causeway (Louisiana) 38.422 km  
    Royal Gorge Bridge (Colorado)   384 m
    Seven-Mile Bridge (Florida)   10,931 m
  • 2 Complete the table of basketball players' heights.

    (Note: 1 foot = 12 inches)

    Basketball Player Height (in feet and inches) Height (in inches)
    Stephen Curry 6 ft 3 in.  
    Tim Duncan   83 in.
    Kevin Durant 6 ft 9 in.  
    LeBron James   80 in.
    Dirk Nowitzki 7 ft  

NOTE

Students convert lengths.

MWI Converting Metric Measurements; Converting U.S. Standard Measurements


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Investigations 3 in Number, Data, and Space®, Student Activity Book Unit 1 Puzzles, Clusters, and Towers Unit 2 Prisms and Solids Unit 3 Rectangles, Clocks, and Tracks Unit 4 How Many People and Teams? Unit 5 Temperature, Height, and Growth Unit 6 Between 0 and 1 Unit 7 Races, Arrays, and Grids Unit 8 Properties of Polygons