NAME ______________________________ DATE _______________

Investigation 1

ACTIVITY

Measurement Benchmarks

Use a ruler, a yardstick, and a meterstick to find objects that are about as long as these measurement units. Record what you find.

Centimeter Inch Foot
Example: the tip of my pencil    
Yard Meter
  Example: the height of the wall from the floor to the board

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Table of Contents

Investigations 3 in Number, Data, and Space®, Student Activity Book Unit 1 Arrays, Factors, and Multiplicative Comparison Unit 2 Generating and Representing Measurement Data Unit 3 Multiple Towers and Cluster Problems Unit 4 Measuring and Classifying Shapes Unit 5 Large Numbers and Landmarks Unit 6 Fraction Cards and Decimal Grids Unit 7 How Many Packages and Groups? Unit 8 Penny Jars and Towers