Choosing the Right Measuring Tool

2nd Grade MathMeasurement and Data5 pages

About this worksheet

This sampler covers the 2nd grade Common Core Measurement and Data strand across four parts. Students match a pencil, a door and a soccer ball to a ruler, yardstick or measuring tape, read a crayon (4 inches) and a marker (6 inches) against a pictured ruler, and find the 13-inch gap between two jump ropes. A time-and-money section reads clocks at 3:30 and 8:15 and totals Leo's 2 quarters, 1 dime and 3 pennies to 63¢. The closing bar graph tallies pet votes (8 dogs, 5 cats, 2 birds, 4 fish) with put-together and compare questions.

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Curriculum objectives covered

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.

Questions 11 to 13 on the pets graph, including the compare equation 5 - 2 = 3.

2.MD.1

Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes.

Questions 1 to 3 pick the right tool for a pencil, a door and a soccer ball, and questions 4 and 5 read the ruler.

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.

Not sampled on this sheet; the measuring and comparing exit slip in this topic carries the two-unit question.

2.MD.3

Estimate lengths using units of inches, feet, centimeters, and meters.

No estimation item appears here; the inches and feet worksheet in this topic holds the estimate-then-measure table.

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.

Questions 6 and 7 find how much longer the marker and Maya's jump rope are.

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.

Question 7, the jump rope word problem solved with 48 - 35 = 13.

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.

No number line item appears on this sampler.

2.MD.7

Tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest five minutes, using a.m. and p.m.

Questions 8 and 9 read 3:30 and 8:15 from analog faces.

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?

Question 10 totals quarters, a dime and pennies to 63¢ with the ¢ symbol.

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.

Line plots are not sampled here; the pencil line plot worksheet in this topic covers them.

What's inside this worksheet

Part 1: Choose the Best Measuring Tool

Three pictured objects matched against a printed tool box. The soccer ball wants the measuring tape because the distance wraps around.

Part 2: Measuring and Comparing Lengths

Ruler readings for the crayon and marker, the 2-inch difference between them, and the jump rope problem 48 - 35.

Part 3: Time and Money Check

Two analog clocks (3:30 and 8:15) and Leo's pocket coins totaled line by line to 63¢.

Part 4: Favorite Pets Bar Graph

A block-per-vote graph. Question 12 wants the equation 5 - 2 = 3 shown, and question 13 totals all 19 votes.

Answer key

Thirteen answers including the coin subtotals and the graph equations.

How teachers use it

Strand pre-test

Give it before the unit and file the results. Thirteen questions across tools, length, time, money and graphs show which lessons can be shortened.

Four stations

Split the parts across four tables with real rulers, play coins and a demonstration clock. Rotate every eight minutes.

One move, three costumes

Questions 6, 7 and 12 all subtract to compare. Say so at the end; students rarely notice it is the same move.

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