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Features

  • Forms A and B ask the same questions with different numbers
  • Conversion tables for kilometers and meters, feet and inches, hours and minutes
  • Change kilograms to grams, liters to milliliters, pounds to ounces and gallons to quarts, and compare amounts
  • Elapsed time from two clocks, and the end time from a start time and a time span
  • A story solved on a number line diagram, a story with two units, and stories with fractions and decimals
  • The last two questions (measuring to the eighth inch and the millimeter, and choosing a unit and a tool) are for the states that teach them in 4th grade
  • Answer keys name the lesson and skill of every question

Skills Covered

  • Metric length: kilometers, meters, centimeters, millimeters
  • Metric mass and liquid volume
  • Customary length: miles, yards, feet, inches
  • Customary weight and capacity
  • Hours, minutes and seconds
  • Elapsed time to the minute
  • Measurement stories in all four operations
  • Stories with fractions and decimals
  • Measure to the nearest eighth inch and millimeter
  • Choose a unit and a tool

How to Use This Pack

The unit test on measurement and conversions. Pages 1 and 2 are Form A. Pages 3 and 4 are Form B: the same questions in the same order with different numbers, for a retake, a make-up or a second seating. Each form has 12 questions, one point each, and a Score line on its first page. Questions 1 to 10 are the Common Core part of the unit; questions 11 and 12 (measuring to the nearest eighth inch and millimeter, and choosing a unit and a tool) are for the states that teach them in 4th grade. The pre-check and the unit review are packs of their own.

In the Classroom

Give Form A the day after the unit review. Most questions have two or more parts: give the point when every part is right, or score them by the part if you like. The rulers on question 11 are at real size, so print at 100% (not "fit to page") if your class will measure. Questions 11 and 12 are taught in 4th grade in some states only: give the ones your class learns and score out of what you give. The answer keys name each question's skill, so a missed question points to the lesson to reteach.

At Home

Use Form B as a check after the unit. Ask your child how many inches are in 3 feet, how many minutes are in 2 hours, and how they know.

Tips for Success

  • Have students write the fact first (1 ft = 12 in) before a conversion
  • Remind students that a bigger unit takes fewer of itself: 2 km is 2,000 m
  • For elapsed time, count the whole hours first, then the minutes
  • Ask "which unit does the answer need?" before each story
  • Use Form B as a retake after reteaching what was missed

Common Core Standards Alignment

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

  • 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.
  • 4.MD.A.1 Know how units within one system compare, rewrite a measurement in a smaller unit, and make two-column conversion tables, like yards to feet.
  • 4.MD.A.2 Solve story problems on distance, time, liquid volume, mass and money with any operation, simple fractions or decimals and unit changes, using number-line diagrams.

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4th Grade Measurement and Conversions Test

The unit test on measurement in two forms, from converting units in one system to measurement stories. Students complete conversion tables, change units of length, mass, liquid volume and time, find elapsed time, and solve measurement stories with whole numbers, fractions and decimals.

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What’s Included

  • The unit test in two forms, A and B (12 questions each)
  • Answer keys that name each question's lesson and skill (8 pages in all)
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