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Measure with Hands and Feet
How many hands long is your desk? How many feet long is the rug? Measure, then compare with a friend.
- Grades
- K–2
- Time
- about 25 minutes
- Topic
- Math and science
- Kids practice
- nonstandard measurement, comparing, why we need rulers
What kids do
“Measure with your own body! Hands, feet and steps.”
- My measurements
- Me measuring
- Why our answers were different:
How to run it
- Place hands end to end with no gaps.
- Compare with a partner and with the teacher’s hands.
- Lead into why rulers were invented.
Talk about it
- Why were answers different?
- Whose hand would give the biggest number?
- What could everyone use instead?
Take it further
Measure the same things with a ruler.
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