Five pages of line plots marked in whole inches and centimeters. On page 1 students read two finished line plots, pencil lengths in inches and leaf lengths in centimeters, and answer eight questions: how many are 5 inches long, the most common length, how many are longer or shorter than a length, how much longer the longest is than the shortest, how many in all, and how many more of one length than another (the first is worked as an example). Page 2 has two tables of measurements, shoes and crayons: students draw an X above the line for each one (the first X is drawn) and answer two questions under each plot. On page 3 students measure six things with inch rulers, write each length, and make a line plot of them; page 4 does the same with seven things on centimeter rulers. On page 5 the line plot has only two numbers: students write the rest, plot twelve frog jumps from a table, and answer put together and compare questions.
Have every student measure a pencil or a crayon to the nearest inch and put a sticky note above that number on a class line plot on the board. Read it together: which length has the tallest stack, how many are longer than 5 inches, and how much longer is the longest than the shortest? On page 5, point out that the numbers on a line plot go up by one every step, like a ruler.
Measure the shoes in the house, or a handful of spoons or toy cars, to the nearest inch. Make a line plot on paper with an X for each one, then ask which length is most common and how much longer the longest is than the shortest.
This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:
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A 5-page 2nd grade pack on line plots of lengths in whole units. Read line plots of pencil and leaf lengths: how many are one length, the most common length, how many are longer or shorter, and how much longer the longest is than the shortest. Make line plots from tables of shoe and crayon lengths, measure things with inch and centimeter rulers and plot the lengths, then write the missing numbers on an empty line plot and plot how far paper frogs jumped. Every page comes in color and in black and white. Answer keys included.
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