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Learn and practice converting customary units of length, capacity, and weight. Understand relationships like yards to feet, pints to cups, and pounds to ounces for practical applications. Complete today's agenda and improve your math skills!
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Thursday, October 27 (Blue)Friday, October 28 (Gold) Today’s Agenda • Make sure your name is on Practice 5-4 and it is completed! • Fill in planner • Today’s HW-Practice 5-5 • Bell Work:
Copy these into your table on your notetaking ws Customary Length • 1 foot (ft) = 12 inches (in) • 1 yard (yd) = 3 feet • 1 mile (mi) = 5,280 feet =1760 yards (yd) To change from a larger unit of measure to a smaller unit, MULTIPLY. To change from a smaller unit of measure to a larger unit, DIVIDE.
Customary Length • A mile is about half the length of Talladega Super Speedway. • Talladega is 2.9 miles long. This represents about 1 mile. Talladega Super Speedway
Customary Length • A yard is about the length of a walking stick.
Customary Length • A foot is about the length of a floor tile.
Customary Length • An inch is about the length of a drink bottle top.
Copy these in the table on your notetaking ws Customary Capacity • 1 cup (c) = 8 fluid ounces (fl oz) • 1 pint (pt) = 2 cups • 1 quart (qt) = 2 pints • 1 gallon (gal) = 4 quarts To change from a larger unit of measure to a smaller unit, MULTIPLY. To change from a smaller unit of measure to a larger unit, DIVIDE.
Meet Mr. Gallon 1 gallon
Meet Mr. Gallon 4 quarts
Meet Mr. Gallon 8 pints
Meet Mr. Gallon 16 cups
Copy this in your booklet page 12 Customary Weight • 1 pound (lb) = 16 ounces (oz) • 1 ton (T) = 2,000 pounds To change from a larger unit of measure to a smaller unit, MULTIPLY. To change from a smaller unit of measure to a larger unit, DIVIDE.
Customary Weight • A small car weighs about a ton.
Customary Weight • A bag of coffee weighs about 1 pound.
Customary Weight • An ounce weighs the same as 8 nickels.
yards feet inches miles
Yards, it is a little too big for feet, way too big for inches, and way too small for miles!
Ounces, it is way to small for any of the other capacity custom measurements.