Targeted Content Standards and Benchmarks
National Council of Mathematics Teachers Standards
Measurement:Grades 6-8
- Understand both metric and customary systems of measurement
- Understand relationships among units and convert from one unit to another within the same system
Problem Solving:
- Build new mathematical knowledge through problem solving
- Solve problems that arise in mathematics and in other contexts
- Apply and adapt a variety of appropriate strategies to solve problems
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Curriculum Focal Points and Connections
As of 2006, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) released math curriculum focal points to describe an approach to curriculum development. The approach focuses on areas of emphasis in each grade from prekindergarten through grade 8. (Curriculum Focal Points for Prekindergarten through Grade 8 Mathematics*)
This Unit Plan meets the following curriculum focal points and connections:
Focal Points
- Grade 6: Number and Operations: Developing an understanding of and fluency with multiplication and division of fractions and decimals
- Grade 7: Number and Operations and Algebra: Developing an understanding of operations on all rational numbers and solving linear equations
- Grade 8: Geometry and Measurement: Analyzing 2 and 3-dimensional space and figures by using distance and angle
Connections
- Grade 6: Measurement and Geometry: Find areas or volumes from lengths or find lengths from volumes or areas and lengths
Student Objectives
Students will be able to:
- Perform mathematical operations using measurement units
- Demonstrate the ability to use measurement
- Measure to the appropriate degree of accuracy
- Demonstrate an understanding of metric measurements
- Create a mathematical problem for others to solve
- Construct a persuasive brochure
- Solve mathematical problems
- Calculate conversions within the metric system
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