Grade 5 Math: Comparing and Estimating
12 printable 5th Grade math worksheets on Comparing and Estimating. The first three are free to download; All Access opens all 12.
Practice pages support a program; they are not the lesson. These sheets reinforce Building Number Sense Grade 5, the sequenced K–5 math series from Faith Thinkers. See every program →
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Teaching Comparing and Estimating
What it is
These pages measure drawn items with a ruler or a scale, convert the measurements into one common unit such as sixteenths of an inch, and rank them shortest to longest or lightest to heaviest. The capacity pages do the same with containers.
When a child is ready
Ready once the child reads a ruler to the sixteenth of an inch and converts within one system, inches to feet or grams to kilograms.
If they struggle
The ranking goes wrong when the units are mixed, because 5/8 looks larger than 3/4 written down when it is not. Convert every measurement to the smallest unit on the page first, write the converted numbers in a column, and only then put them in order.
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