Students estimate and measure length, mass, capacity, and time using appropriate customary and metric units, record measurements to specified precision, calculate elapsed time, and convert among common units, including inches, feet, yards, miles; ounces, pounds, tons; cups, pints, quarts, gallons; millimeters, centimeters, meters, kilometers; milligrams, grams, kilograms; milliliters, liters, kiloliters; and seconds, minutes, hours, days, and weeks. Students calculate perimeter and area of polygons, rectangles, parallelograms, triangles, and composite figures; determine missing side lengths and dimensions; and solve scale-drawing and measurement problems involving whole numbers, fractions, and decimals. Students find and interpret the volume and surface area of rectangular prisms and familiar solids using unit cubes, nets, formulas, and decomposition, while solving multi-step contextual problems and applying conversion factors with consistent linear, square, cubic, and compound units.
On this page:
- Master skills like “Convert units of time”, “Estimate measurements”, and “Calculate elapsed time” with unlimited, free practice problems
- Download (or modify) free worksheets on Measurement you can use at home or in class with practice problems across all skills in this group including “Find area of triangles”, “Use conversion factors”, “Find area of rectangles”.
- Start working on adaptive units like “Measurement - Units Intro - Metric” or “Measurement - Unit Conversion Intro - Metric” that include these skills and will introduce and scaffold the skills carefully for maximum learning.
Measurement: Individual Skills
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- Calculate elapsed time
- Choose appropriate customary units
- Choose appropriate metric units
- Convert between mixed units
- Convert customary capacity units
- Convert customary length units
- Convert customary weight units
- Convert metric capacity units
- Convert metric length units
- Convert metric mass units
- Convert units of time
- Estimate measurements
- Find a missing dimension from volume
- Find area of composite figures
- Find area of parallelograms
- Find area of rectangles
- Find area of triangles
- Find missing side lengths from perimeter
- Find perimeter of polygons
- Find surface area of rectangular prisms
- Find surface area using nets
- Find volume of rectangular prisms
- Find volume using unit cubes
- Measure to a specified precision
- Relate volume to multiplication and addition
- Solve measurement word problems
- Solve multi-step unit-conversion problems
- Solve scale drawing problems informally
- Use conversion factors
- Use the formula for rectangular-prism volume
Practice 'Calculate elapsed time'
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Download/Modify Free Grade 6 'Measurement' Worksheet
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This Worksheet Includes:
- Calculate elapsed time
- Choose appropriate customary units
- Choose appropriate metric units
- Convert between mixed units
- Convert customary capacity units
- Convert customary length units
- Convert customary weight units
- Convert metric capacity units
Units Teaching These Skills
These adaptive units introduce, teach, or reinforce skills in this group (Measurement) through scaffolded problems that grow in difficulty as concepts are understood.