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Grade 4 Unit 5 ~ Converting Customary Units / Capacity
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converting capacity

 

Students in Ms. Shuster's class use a geoboard to convert between customary capacity units. The entire geoboard represents one gallon. Students then partition the geoboard to explore the relationship between gallons, quarts, pints and cups. The student work here shows that 4 quarts = 1 gallon; 8 pints = 1 gallon and 16 cups = 1 gallon.

 

 

convert units of capacity
Using the geoboard, the student easily converts into cups and determines that the amount showing on the left is less than the amount showing on the right.
convert units of capacity
Notice all of the equivalent ways the student has expressed each capacity before comparing them.
Online Geoboard
Online Geoboard

Indicator: 3.4.3.5 determine and use equivalent units within the same system.
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