Line plots with fractions: 4th grade math
Line plots with fractional data. A free 4th 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 fractional data.
Teach (10 min)
- Read each X as a fraction of an inch. Put pieces end to end by adding the fractions.
- How much longer? Subtract the smaller fraction from the bigger one.
- 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.lineplot4?lesson=4-measure-lineplot-1&at=4
Exit ticket (5 min)
- Use the first three questions on the printable sheet as a slip.
Printable sheet
Name: ____________________ Date: ____________
Line plots with fractions (4th grade)
- Each X on the line plot is the length of one crayon in inches. How much longer is the longest than the shortest?
- Each X on the line plot is the length of one leaf in inches. The leaves that are 312 inches long are put end to end. How long are they together?
- Each X on the line plot is the length of one crayon in inches. How much longer is the longest than the shortest?
- Each X on the line plot is the length of one leaf in inches. How much longer is the longest than the shortest?
- Each X on the line plot is the length of one feather in inches. How much longer is the longest than the shortest?
- Each X on the line plot is the length of one strip of paper in inches. The strips of paper that are 212 inches long are put end to end. How long are they together?
- Each X on the line plot is the length of one twig in inches. The two longest twigs are put end to end. How long are they together?
- Each X on the line plot is the length of one ribbon in inches. All the ribbons are put end to end. How long are they all together?
- Each X on the line plot is the length of one twig in inches. The twigs that are 38 inches long are put end to end. How long are they together?
- Each X on the line plot is the length of one strip of paper in inches. All the strips of paper are put end to end. How long are they all together?
- Each X on the line plot is the length of one feather in inches. The two longest feathers are put end to end. How long are they together?
- Each X on the line plot is the length of one pencil in inches. All the pencils are put end to end. How long are they all together?
Key
- 3 1/2 inches
- 7 inches
- 2 inches
- 2 inches
- 1 1/4 inches
- 5 inches
- 6 inches
- 26 1/4 inches
- 1 1/2 inches
- 12 3/4 inches
- 1 7/8 inches
- 28 1/8 inches
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