Measurement Vocabulary and Outcomes for K - 9

K - 3 Vocabulary for measurement, time, money

Measurement Time Money
  • apart
  • height
  • quart
  • yardstick
  • area
  • inch
  • rectangular
  • box
  • millimeter
  • mm
  • Celsius
  • length
  • ruler
  • centimeter
  • cm
  • cubic unit
  • linear unit
  • scale
  • thermometer
  • decimeter dm
  • degree
  • measure
  • tablespoon
  • meter m
  • dimension
  • measurement
  • teaspoon
  • kilometer km
  • distance
  • meter stick
  • temperature
  • milliliter ml
  • dozen
  • metric unit
  • liter l
  • empty
  • mile
  • volume
  • kiloliter kl
  • Fahrenheit
  • ounce
  • weight
  • kilogram kg
  • foot, feet
  • pint
  • width
  • gram g
  • gallon
  • pound
  • yard
  • milligram
  • mg
  • a.m.
  • daily
  • minute
  • today
  • after
  • day
  • morning
  • time
  • afternoon
  • during
  • month
  • tomorrow
  • before
  • early
  • p.m.
  • week
  • breakfast
  • half hour
  • quarter hour
  • year
  • calendar
  • late
  • second
  • yesterday
  • buy
  • dime
  • money
  • penny
  • cent
  • dollar
  • nickel
  • save
  • change
  • half - dollar
  • quarter
  • sell
  • cost
  • monetary value
  • pay
  • spend

Measurement Areas and Outcomes

Kindergarten

Linear

Longer, shorter, compare objects linear measures
Measurement with continuous objects (snap cubes, strings of paper clips, strips of paper, yarn…)
Estimation: visualize non-standard unit compared to what you don’t know (blocks, paperclips)

Area

Tiling problems (how many tiles to cover this paper? How many cards are needed to cover the desk?)

Volume & Capacity

Volume: which container can hold more (i.e. compare two trash cans)

Weight & Mass

Use a balance

Time

Duration of a minute, second
Identify different events as occurring during the day: morning, noon, or night
Identify numerals on a clock

First Grade

General

Identify objects as larger, smaller, more, equal, less
Use nonstandard units to measure
Identify tools of measurement (clock, calendar, balance, ruler) and use of tools

Linear

Longer, shorter, compare objects linear measures
Measurement with continuous objects (snap cubes, strings of paper clips, strips of paper, yarn…)
Estimation: visualize non-standard unit compared to what you don’t know (blocks, paperclips)

Area

Tiling problems (how many tiles to cover this paper? How many to cover the desk?)

Volume & Capacity

Volume: which container can hold more (i.e. compare two trash cans)

Weight & Mass

Put objects on a balance and identify the heavier or lighter
Use nonstandard comparisons

Time

Identifying past, present, and future
Duration of a minute, second, weeks, months, years
Identify different events as occurring during the day: morning, (AM) noon, or night (PM)
Tell time to the half hour(**)

Money

Identify penny, nickel, dime, quarter, dollar

Temperature

Hot (swimming weather or warmer) medium (room temperature) cold (Winter jackets snow, ice, refrigerator)
Temperature relates to the season

Second Grade

Linear

Vocabulary: centimeters, length, foot, meter

Measure to the nearest foot, inch, estimating lengths of objects

Area

Tiling problems (hexagons on a triangle, desk area)

Volume & Capacity

Recognize cup, pint, quart, gallon
Compare capacities of different containers.

Weight & Mass

Identify ounces, pounds,
Weigh using a scale

Time

Tell time on digital and analog clocks
Solve problems using a calendar that involve days, weeks, months, and holidays
Classify events as past, present, and future
Huge clocks with numbers, add something to represent every minute (dots, cubes — cut out dots with a paper punch and glue them around the clock model)

Elapsed time

Temperature

Read a thermometer (should be one-to-one correspondence, 0-100 showing each increment)

Money

Identify penny, nickel, dime, quarter, dollar
Solve for equivalent values of different collections of money.

Temperature

Hot warm cool cold

   

Third Grade

Linear

Tell that standard units help communicate measurements better than non standard.
Identify standard units (inches, feet, meters)
Figuring out how many "large steps" or "baby steps" from one place to another.
Using various objects to measure lengths (toothpicks, straws, cards, pieces of paper)
Estimate to the nearest inch using a measuring device (or meter, centimeter, etc.) what a particular measurement is.

Perimeter

Area

Placing square cards within a large shape drawn on the floor. Students count the number of squares within the shape to estimate the area of the shape.
Draw a floor plan of bedroom and estimate the area the objects in the room take up. Use graph paper to help estimate (make a "bird’s eye view plan").

Volume & Capacity

Arrange a group of different sized containers from least volume to most volume.

Estimate volumes of irregular shapes.

Weight & Mass

Students estimate the weights of two objects, then place the objects on a two-pan balance and find each object mass/weight.

Time

Complete a timeline of the student’s day. Listing activities done and at what time.
Create a clock showing hours and minutes.
Estimate ages of family members, closest to a century old, decade old, year old.

Money

Identify penny, nickel, dime, quarter, dollar
Solve for equivalent values of different collections of money.
Count money
Count change by counting up
Solve money problems

Temperature

Hot warm cool cold freezing boiling Celsius Fahrenheit

Estimate  

 

4 - 6 Vocabulary for measurement, time, money

Measurement Time Money
  • acre
  • decade
  • perimeter
  • ton
  • bakers dozen
  • estimate
  • protractor
  • yearly
  • capacity
  • graduated
  • scale
  • quart
  • century
  • gross
  • squared foot, square inch, square meter, square mile
  • Earth rotation - day
  • Earth orbit - year
  • seasons
  • month - mo0n
  • currency
  • deposit

 

Measurement Areas and Outcomes

Fourth Grade

General

Use measurement in problem solving

Explore metric system

Measuring using nonstandard and standard units

Linear

Use metric units
Measure fractional parts of an inch
Explore feet, yards, miles

Area

Find area in shapes with right angles
Estimate area in irregular shapes

Volume & Capacity

Find capacity

Quarts in a gallon

Weight & Mass

Use metric units

Time

Tell time to the nearest minute and second

Elapsed time

AM PM military time

Angles

Use a protractor to measure angles

Measure angles in degrees
Identify obtuse, right, and acute angles

Temperature

Celsius and Fahrenheit

Money

Count money
Count change by counting up
Solve money problems

Measurement Areas and Outcomes

Fifth Grade

Linear

Know how to measure using various instruments (inches, feet, yards, miles, millimeters, centimeters, meters, kilometers) to 1/2 of a unit.

Area

Find and label area in square units for linear measurements
Find area for rectangles, squares, right triangles, and other figures with right angles.
Estimate area of irregular shapes.

Volume & Capacity

Find volume of cubes, rectangular prisms

Weight & Mass

Use a balance

Use ounces, pounds, tons, grams, kilograms, and metric tons to find the mass of objects

Time

Tell time and do time problems with seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, and years

Angles

Use a protractor to measure angles

Measure angles in degrees
Identify obtuse, right, and acute angles

Money

Count money
Count back change by counting up
Solve money problems with and without decmals

Measurement Areas and Outcomes

Sixth Grade

Linear

Measure using various instruments (inches, feet, yards, miles, millimeters, centimeters, meters, kilometers) to 1/2 of a unit.
Find perimeter of polygons, circles,

Area

know how to find and label (square units for linear units) area (rectangles, squares, parallelograms, triangles, circles)
Estimate area of irregular shapes.
Find the surface area of shapes that have faces that are (rectangles, squares, parallelograms, triangles, circles)

Volume & Capacity

Cups, pints, quarts, gallons, milliliter, liter,
Know how to find and label (cubic units) volume
Compare cubic units to volume in metric system
Find volume of cubes, rectangular prisms, cylinders triangular prisms
Make three dimensional models of prisms, pyramids, cylinders
Identify properties of three dimensional shapes.

Weight & Mass

Use a balance

Use ounces, pounds, grams, and kilograms to find the mass of objects

Time

Tell time and do time problems with seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, and years

Angles

Use a protractor to measure angles

Measure angles in degrees

Temperature

Use a thermometer and read temperature to one degree

Metric

Visual representation of mm cm m km g kg ml l
the students will know a quart is a little less than a liter, meter is a little more than a yard, Kilogram is a little more than two pounds. A Kilometer is a little more than a mile.

Estimate foot and yard to meters

Money

Count money
Count change by counting up
Solve money problems with and without decimals
Solve money problems involving percents.

 

7 - 9 Vocabulary for measurement, time, money

Measurement Time Money
  • avoirdupois
  • mark up
  • pi
  • precision
  • interest rate
  • interest rates, compound, simple
  • discount
  • mark up
  • profit
  • rate

 

 

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