Grade 4 Math: Measurement Word Problems
4 printable 4th Grade math worksheets on Measurement Word Problems. The first three are free to download; All Access opens all 4.
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Teaching Measurement Word Problems
What it is
These are stories that need measurement facts: adding lengths of fencing, working out how much juice is left, converting before comparing two amounts. The units usually have to be made the same before any arithmetic happens.
When a child is ready
Begin once unit conversions are secure and one-step word problems are handled confidently.
If they struggle
Have the child underline every measurement in the story with its unit, and write beside it what the story does to them, joins, removes, or compares. Convert to one unit only after that decision, since a child who converts first often loses track of what the numbers were for. An answer that lands wildly large or small is nearly always a conversion done the wrong way round.
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