
Choosing the Right Measuring Tool
Strand sampler: pick measuring tools, compare a crayon and marker, read clocks at 3:30 and 8:15, total 63 cents, and work a pets bar graph. 2nd grade review.
2.MD measurement: measuring the length of objects by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, and measuring tapes.

Strand sampler: pick measuring tools, compare a crayon and marker, read clocks at 3:30 and 8:15, total 63 cents, and work a pets bar graph. 2nd grade review.

Choose tools and units, estimate then measure a notebook and scissors, explain 2 feet as 24 inches, and compare pet ribbons. 2.MD.1 to 2.MD.4.

Turn 15 pencil measurements into a line plot from 3 to 7 inches, then answer five questions off the finished plot. Full coverage of 2.MD.9.

Four-question exit slip: pick a hallway tool, estimate an 8-inch pencil, subtract ribbon lengths, and explain 25 cm versus 10 in. Checks 2.MD.1 to 2.MD.4.

Ribbons, a growing lizard, craft wire and block towers: four length stories within 100 with equation, work and unit-labeled answer lines. 2.MD.5.

Read a paw-print pet graph, then color a bar graph from fruit-vote data and answer compare questions from it. Drawing and reading graphs for 2.MD.10.
2.MD.10
“Draw a picture graph and a bar graph (with single-unit scale) to represent a data set with up to four categories. Solve simple put-together, take-apart, and compare problems using information presented in a bar graph.”
2.MD.1
“Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes.”
2.MD.2
“Measure the length of an object twice, using length units of different lengths for the two measurements; describe how the two measurements relate to the size of the unit chosen.”
2.MD.3
“Estimate lengths using units of inches, feet, centimeters, and meters.”
2.MD.4
“Measure to determine how much longer one object is than another, expressing the length difference in terms of a standard length unit.”
2.MD.5
“Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve word problems involving lengths that are given in the same units, e.g., by using drawings (such as drawings of rulers) and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.”
2.MD.6
“Represent whole numbers as lengths from O on a number line diagram with equally spaced points corresponding to the numbers 0, 1, 2, ..., and represent whole-number sums and differences within 100 on a number line diagram.”
2.MD.7
“Tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest five minutes, using a.m. and p.m.”
2.MD.8
“Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using $ and ¢ symbols appropriately. Example: If you have 2 dimes and 3 pennies, how many cents do you have?”
2.MD.9
“Generate measurement data by measuring lengths of several objects to the nearest whole unit, or by making repeated measurements of the same object. Show the measurements by making a line plot, where the horizontal scale is marked off in whole-number units.”
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2.OA fluency: adding and subtracting within 20 using mental strategies, working toward automatic recall of one-digit sums.

2.NBT place value: understanding that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones.

2.G geometry: recognizing and drawing shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or faces.

2.MD money and time: telling and writing time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest five minutes, alongside money practice.