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Features

  • Six questions on what the unit builds on
  • Read a clock and draw the hands to five minutes
  • Find how much time passed in whole and half hours, and the time 2 hours later
  • Measure to the inch with a ruler
  • Read a dial scale in pounds
  • A Score line, to sort the class before the unit
  • Answer key names the lesson each question leads into

Skills Covered

  • Read a clock to five minutes
  • Draw the hands to five minutes
  • Elapsed time in whole and half hours
  • The time a few hours later
  • Measure in inches with a ruler
  • Read a dial scale in pounds

How to Use This Pack

One page to give on the first day of the unit on time, mass and liquid volume, before any teaching. Its six questions are on the 2nd grade skills the unit builds on: time to five minutes, elapsed whole and half hours, measuring with a ruler and reading a dial scale. It has a Score line, and the key names the lesson each question leads into. The unit review and the unit test are packs of their own.

In the Classroom

Give the pre-check on the first day and sort the class by what they missed: a student who cannot yet read a clock to five minutes needs that before time to the minute, and one who misses the scale needs to count the ticks between the numbers before reading scales in grams and containers in liters. Nothing on the page asks for time to the minute, grams or liters yet, so a low score is no surprise; it shows where to start.

At Home

Use it to see what your child needs before the unit starts: read the kitchen clock together, ask what time it will be in two hours, and weigh something on a bathroom or kitchen scale.

Tips for Success

  • Give it before the first lesson, not after
  • Read the score as a starting point, not a grade
  • Keep a geared clock out for a student who missed the clock questions
  • The key names the lesson each question leads into

Common Core Standards Alignment

This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:

  • 2.MD.C.7 Read and record clock times in 5-minute steps on clock faces and digital displays, and use a.m. and p.m. correctly.
  • 3.MD.A.1 Read and record time to the exact minute, find how many minutes pass between times, and solve story problems adding or subtracting minutes.
  • 3.MD.A.2 Estimate and measure mass in grams and kilograms and liquid volume in liters, and solve one-step story problems about them with any operation.
  • 3.MD.B.4 Measure lengths to the nearest half or quarter inch and show the measurements on a line plot marked in wholes, halves or quarters.

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3rd Grade Time, Mass and Liquid Volume Pre-Check

A check to give before the unit on time, mass and liquid volume, on the time and measuring it builds on. Students read and draw clocks to five minutes, find elapsed whole and half hours, measure with an inch ruler and read a dial scale in pounds.

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What’s Included

  • A one-page pre-check (6 questions) with a Score line
  • An answer key that names each question's lesson and skill (2 pages in all)
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