{"id":3563,"date":"2018-01-11T08:35:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T16:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/?p=3563"},"modified":"2018-01-11T15:12:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T23:12:39","slug":"math-practice-metric-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/2018\/01\/11\/math-practice-metric-conversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Math: Practice Metric Conversion!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Everyone!<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, as part of our ongoing work on our math unit&nbsp;<em>Math Makes It Work<\/em>, we continued discussions about the metric system of measurement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are some things we talked about:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the metric system, we have&nbsp;<strong>bases<\/strong> which are&nbsp;<strong>liters, meters, and grams.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In front of each of the bases, we can put prefixes that tell us how many of the base is involved in the measurement. These are:&nbsp;<strong>kilo-, hecto-, deca-\/deka-, deci-, centi-, and milli-<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>We can use a set of stairs (going from upstairs to downstairs in a left to right fashion) to convert between the different units of measurement in the metric system. To remember the stairs, you could make up a phrase, such as &#8220;<strong>K<\/strong>angaroos <strong>H<\/strong>elp&nbsp;<strong>D<\/strong>ingos <strong>B<\/strong>ecause <strong>D<\/strong>ingos <strong>C<\/strong>an&#8217;t <strong>M<\/strong>ultiply&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The&nbsp;<strong>B<\/strong> stands for the base unit of measurement. <em>Always stay in the same base when converting using the stairs.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>You can convert measurements by putting them on the stairs in the right unit, and then multiplying or dividing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>If you move down the stairs<\/strong>, each stair means multiplying by 10 and moving the decimal one space to the right. If there isn&#8217;t a number, add zeros.<\/li>\n<li><strong>If you move up the stairs<\/strong>, each stair means dividing by 10 and moving the decimal one space to the left. If there isn&#8217;t a number, add zeros.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Want some more practice?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Quia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quia.com\/rr\/96635.html\">Metric Millionaire Game<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Khan Academy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/math\/cc-fifth-grade-math\/cc-5th-measurement-topic\/cc-5th-unit-conversion\/e\/converting-units\">Conversion of Units Practice<\/a><\/p>\n<p>IXL <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ixl.com\/math\/grade-5\/compare-and-convert-metric-units\">Compare and Convert Units Grade 4\/5 Level<\/a><\/p>\n<p>IXL <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ixl.com\/math\/grade-6\/convert-and-compare-metric-units\">Compare and Convert Units Grade 6 Level<\/a><\/p>\n<p>IXL <a href=\"https:\/\/ca.ixl.com\/math\/grade-8\/convert-rates-and-measurements-metric-units\">Compare and Convert Units Grade 8 Level<\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Waterloo <a href=\"http:\/\/cemc2.math.uwaterloo.ca\/mathfrog\/english\/kidz\/metric6E.shtml\">Math Frog Metrics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More advanced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencegeek.net\/Chemistry\/taters\/Unit0Metrics.htm\">Metric Units Using Notation<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More advanced <a href=\"http:\/\/mrnussbaum.com\/metric\/\">Matthew Metrics Gum Parlour<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mathgeekmama.com\/metric-conversions-game\/\">Metric Card Game<\/a> (which we will adapt and play in class)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other Fun Games: (Do you have any to recommend? Tell Ms. D!)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sheppard Software <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheppardsoftware.com\/mathgames\/menus\/measurement.htm\">Measurement Activities<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BBC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/skillswise\/game\/ma22leng-game-build-a-shed\">Build a Shed Game<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Read How To Part on this one &#8212;&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/mrnussbaum.com\/deathdecimals\/\">Death to Decimals Game<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Everyone! Earlier this week, as part of our ongoing work on our math unit&nbsp;Math Makes It Work, we continued discussions about the metric system of measurement. Here are some things we talked about: In the metric system, we have&nbsp;bases which are&nbsp;liters, meters, and grams. In front of each of the bases, we can put prefixes that tell us how<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4053,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3563"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3567,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions\/3567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}