NAME ______________________________ DATE _______________

DAILY PRACTICE

Solving Measurement Problems

Solve each problem and show your work.

  • 1 A canned ham has a weight of 2 pounds. What is the weight, in ounces, of 7 canned hams? (1 pound = 16 ounces)

  • 2 Mrs. Corelli worked in her garden for 45 minutes each day for 2 weeks. How many minutes did Mrs. Corelli work in her garden altogether over the two weeks? (1 week = 7 days)

  • 3 How many 5-minute cartoons can be shown in one hour? (The cartoons are shown one at a time.)

  • 4 Enrique used 12 quarts of orange juice and 17 quarts of apple juice to make fruit punch for a school picnic. How many cups of juice are in the punch? (1 quart = 4 cups)

  • 5 One fish bowl holds 5 liters of water. How many milliliters of water would 6 fish bowls hold? (1 liter = 1,000 milliliters)

NOTE

Students use the four operations to solve problems involving measurements.

MWI Converting Measurement


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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