We are already in the second month of this school year and a lot of things have been happening in our class. In Math, Class 5 has started a new unit, Measurement and problem solving.
In a perfect world, we would always have measuring tools with standard units of measurement readily available to take measurement. However, what do we do if we need to take a measurement and we don’t have any standard measuring instruments available? We have a solution in this case! Use nonstandard units of measurement. The students came up with units of measurement that aren’t typically used, such as leaves, cubes, pipe cleaners, sticks, shoes.