Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Metric Conversions

Today in math we used a ruler to measure centimeters and millimeters. Students were able to measure pictures of invertebrates that were drawn to scale. They did a great job converting centimeters to millimeters and millimeters back to centimeters.

4th Graders, don't forget...

1 cm = 10 mm
1 mm = 0.1 cm

Challenge: Find something to measure at home and tell us both the centimeter and millimeter measurements?

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