Line plots with halves: 3rd grade math
Line plots with halves and quarters (measurement link). A free 3rd grade lesson plan, a question set with answers and a printable sheet with its key. Copy it and make it yours.
Lesson plan
Goal
- Students can do this: line plots with halves and quarters (measurement link).
Teach (10 min)
- The line is marked in halves or fourths of an inch. Each X is one thing measured.
- Count the Xs at a mark, or to the left or right of it.
- Work one example on the board while students say each step aloud, then do one together.
Practise (15 min)
- Students work the printable sheet in pairs, then alone.
- Or practise it as a game with no sign-up: https://peabody.kids/math/measure.lineplot3?lesson=3-measure-lineplot-1&at=3
Exit ticket (5 min)
- Use the first three questions on the printable sheet as a slip.
Printable sheet
Name: ____________________ Date: ____________
Line plots with halves (3rd grade)
- Each X on the line plot is the length of one ribbon in inches. How many ribbons are exactly 112 inches long?
- Each X on the line plot is the length of one crayon in inches. How many crayons are exactly 2 inches long?
- Each X on the line plot is the length of one ribbon in inches. How many ribbons are exactly 112 inches long?
- Each X on the line plot is the length of one strip of paper in inches. How many strips of paper were measured in all?
- Each X on the line plot is the length of one crayon in inches. How many crayons are longer than 112 inches?
- Each X on the line plot is the length of one twig in inches. How many twigs are shorter than 112 inches?
- Each X on the line plot is the length of one ribbon in inches. How many ribbons are longer than 212 inches?
- Each X on the line plot is the length of one leaf in inches. How many leaves are shorter than 214 inches?
- These ribbons were measured, in inches: 14, 12, 1, 134, 134, 214, 214, 214, 234, 234. On a line plot, each one gets an X. How many Xs go above 12?
- Each X on the line plot is the length of one crayon in inches. How many crayons are exactly 134 inches long?
- Each X on the line plot is the length of one feather in inches. How many feathers are exactly 12 inches long?
- Each X on the line plot is the length of one strip of paper in inches. How many strips of paper are longer than 112 inches?
Key
- 3
- 3
- 1
- 10
- 5
- 1
- 2
- 4
- 1
- 2
- 1
- 3
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