Unit 6 Scale Factor and Measurement6单元尺度因子和测量.ppt

Unit 6: Scale Factor and Measurement How will you measure up? Measurement What am I Learning Today? How will I show that I learned it? Determine appropriate units of measure Measure length to the nearest half, fourth, eighth and sixteenth of an inch. Convert from one unit to another within one system of measurement (customary or metric) by using proportional relationships. Take out a clean sheet of notebook paper. Place it in front of you on your desk. Fold your paper in half long ways “hot dog style”. Following Directions Lesson Open your paper up and place it holes to the top on your desk. Draw a line all the way down the crease on the paper with a marker. Following Directions Lesson Fold the paper in half the other way “hamburger style”. Following Directions Lesson Open the paper up with the holes to the top. Draw a line from the center of the paper to the margin closest to you. Following Directions Lesson Fold the paper again “hamburger style”. Then fold it over again in the same direction as you folded it last. Following Directions Lesson Open the paper up. Draw a line on each of the creases half way to the bottom margin. Then fold your paper back up like you last had it. Following Directions Lesson Fold the paper over one more time in the same direction as your last fold, making it even more slender. Following Directions Lesson Open the paper up. Draw lines on the four creases half as long as the last lines you drew, or ? of the way to the bottom margin. Following Directions Lesson Draw small lines on our paper in between each of the lines already on your paper and the left and right edges. Make the lines extend down and be half as long as the last lines drawn. Following Directions Lesson Next, draw lines on the left and right edges all the way down below the margin, half way between the margin and the bottom of the paper. How many lines have you drawn? What fraction represents the whole amount? Following Directions Lesson You read each line as a fraction