 | Inch by Inch - A good site for elementary teachers to get ideas and resources for teaching measurement. It includes lesson plans, materials, common questions, and software. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | California Here We Come! - In this weeklong unit, students plan a trip to California, gaining experience with measurement and other mathematical concepts. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Tangrams - This set of activities provides hands-on exploration of area and geometry using tangrams, a set of shapes. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Our Town - In this lesson students make observations and draw conclusions on the local temperature variations in their areas. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Pumpkin Pie for All - This lesson plan promotes proportional reasoning through a situation in which students have to make enough pumpkin pie for the whole class when given a recipe that makes only a single pie. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Tree Measurement - This activity shows students ways to measure trees and provides a nice link to data analysis through its emphasis on collecting the data. - Direct to Web Resource |
| The Value of Pi - This resource gives a brief history of pi and its computed values. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Our Town - In this lesson students make observations and draw conclusions on the local temperature variations in their areas. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Area Formula Lab - This is a set of investigations (including hand-outs) to help students develop formulas for the area of common polygons (and the circle). - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Time and Time Again - In this lesson, students analyze and calculate time zone differences. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Fractals - Discovering patterns and using them to determine perimeters of triangles. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Quadrant Projects - This site explains how to create your own quadrant and provides projects that can be done with it. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Reasonable Estimation - In this activity, students listen to scenarios and decide if estimation is or is not appropriate.. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Jack and the Beanstalk - This activity uses the story "Jack and the Beanstalk" to give students an opportunity to make estimations and compare them to actual measurements. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Measuring Length - In this activity, students use unifix cubes, rulers, and yarn to measure objects of various lengths and compare results. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Tour of Measurement (elementary level) - A good site for elementary teachers to get ideas and resources for teaching measurement. It includes lesson plans, materials, common questions, and software. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Water Measurement - This PDF file presents an activity in which students analyze and collect data on the level of a container of water as it evaporates over four days. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Non-Standard Measuring - This activity helps students to gain experience in measurement by using an non-standard measuring tool. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Varnelle's Primary Math--Intro to Measurement - These lessons are designed to engage young children in a series of activities where they measure and describe the attributes of integer bars. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Telling Time by the Hour - This lesson plan designed for K-1 introduces children to time through a literature connection. The Grouchy Lady Bug by Eric Carle is used to illustrate the use of time and the story is followed by daylong activities centered around telling time. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | My First Garden - This garden site deals with the planning of the garden, such as where it will be placed, what will be planted, and when planting will happen. Math activities included estimating, measurement and problems solving. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Nikki's Orienteering Adventure - Students will take an adventure with Nikki in a hot air balloon and learn all about maps, symbolization, and proportional reasoning in this orienteering unit. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Bean Flick - This is a fun measurement and estimation activity that can be connected with Jack and the Beanstalk or as an introduction to the common science experiment, growing beans. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Inchworm Measurement - Literature and mathematics are intertwined in this lesson about measurement based on the book Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Whirlybird - Students collect data about their self-constructed whirlybirds and learn to display and predict the accuracy of their devices. - Direct to Web Resource |
| A Day Full of Popcorn - This lesson integrates math into a day full of inter-curricular activities focused on the theme of popcorn. Activities include those related to science, language arts and social science among others. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Sand Babies - Students explore measurement by collecting information about themselves and creating a model of their birth weights that are decorated as sand babies. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Area - Students use an online applet to explore patterns in the area of random shapes on a grid. The lesson plan includes a worksheet with questions that will help lead students to an understanding of the concept of area. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Perimeter - Students use an online applet to explore methods for measuring the perimeter of polygons on a grid. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Tell Time with Your Feet - Students measure their shadows and then compare the lengths to a chart to find out the time of day. This activity can also be helpful in encouraging students to think about angles. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Don't Fence Me In - Students are challenged to explore the relationship between rectangular perimeter and area with this lesson. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Mini Metric Olympics - Students use their estimation skills to win the fun, “mini-metric” olympic events of this activity. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Metric Wins! - This page provides an idea for teachers to help students understand the differences between the SI system, the mixed metric system, and the inch/pound system. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Gasoline Tanks - This activity has students compare gas mileage for different cars. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Big Trees - This "Figure This!" activity engages students in working with the measurements of a tree in order to explore the circumference and diameter of a circle. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Tern Turn - With this activity, students work on problems calculating distance in the context of migration and travel. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Fun with Tangrams - This activity uses tangrams to explore shapes and patterns. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Tangrams and Fractions - This activity introduces and provides practice in determining the fractional parts and in determining wholes using Tangrams. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | PIGS Space: Cooperative Learning-Modules - Various lessons constructed to use cooperative learning are provided on this Web site. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Area and Volume - This lesson provides hands-on exploration of units of measurement for area and volume. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Play My Way - This activity allows students to design their own playground that is safe and cost effective. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Tour of Measurement (elementary level) - Elementary teachers can use this Web site to get ideas and resources for teaching measurement. It includes lesson plans, materials, common questions, and software. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Fibonacci Bamboozlement - Experimenting with the "bamboozlement" applet on this page may be a great way to challenge students to investigate area. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Find the Area of the Shape - This interactive site uses a Java-based geometry applet to examine properties of shapes to determine formulas for their areas. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Cool Estimation - This activity focuses on the appropriateness of estimation in a real-life situation, making a pre-sweetened drink. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Flight Path - Students are asked to devise shortest routes for airplanes - Direct to Web Resource |
| Flight Path - Determine the shortest flight path from San Francisco to New York City. - Direct to Web Resource |
| California Here We Come! - In this weeklong unit, students plan a trip to California, gaining experience with measurement and other mathematical concepts. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Fibonacci Bamboozlement - Experimenting with the "bamboozlement" applet on this page may be a great way to challenge students to investigate area. - Direct to Web Resource |
| About a Line and a Triangle - An interactive mathematics problem for students to ponder over. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Tour of Measurement (middle grades) - A good Web site for middle school teachers to get ideas and resources for teaching measurement. It includes lesson plans, materials, common questions, and software. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Revisewise - This site provides activities, factsheets, and tests for each category. It includes numbers, data handling, shape, space and measure, mental maths, and number systems. - Direct to Web Resource |
| What's Your Index? - A problem regarding the "body mass index" from the Figure This! collection. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Big Trees - This "Figure This!" site engages students in working with the measurements of a tree in order to explore the circumference and diameter of a circle. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Tern Turn - Determine how long it will take a tern to fly from the Arctic to Antarctic given certain information. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Faster? - An activity that focuses on different types of conversion factors. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Line Up! - Students try to figure out how long they must wait in line if they are number 300 in line. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Fill it up! - Students figure which of two cylinders will hold more popcorn. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Mirror, Mirror - Look at how angles,reflections, lines of sight, and triangles are related by using a reflection in a mirror. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Chocolate - areas of irregular shapes - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Building A Pyramid - Fun in class project on surface area and volume that could be used to let students derive these formulas on their own from given information. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Leonardo da Vinci - Is the ratio of arm span to our height really equal to one? - Direct to Web Resource |
| Tell Time with Your Feet - Students measure their shadows over a period of time during a day (and other days) to compare their data with a chart and see if the time of day matches. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Home Improvement - Students design a floor plan. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Length, Perimeter, and Area - An exploration of the relationship of perimeter and area. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Angle Activities - This is a virtual protractor with associated activities. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | The Derivation of (Pi) - Provides discovery activites relating the circumference of a circle to the circle's diameter. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Caution: Falling Objects - A NASA connection provides the motivation for a lesson plan calculating the kinetic energy and velocity of a projectile impacting a planet. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Water to the Max - This lesson includes a concrete investigation of a maximization problem. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Soft Drink Package Efficiency - Students use volume and surface area formulas for solving an optimization problem in a real life context (soft drink packaging). - Direct to Web Resource |
| Time and Time Again - In this lesson, students analyze and calculate time zone differences. - Direct to Web Resource |
| It's About Time - In this lesson, students create and solve word problems where they translate between the current time system and Internet time. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | School-Bus Geometry - This lesson introduces an unusual measurement of distance using a school bus. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Fractals - Discovering patterns and using them to determine perimeters of triangles. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Geoboards in the Classroom - This is a unit that offers suggestions for using geoboards to explore the length and area of two-dimensional geometric figures, and other interesting investigations. - Direct to Web Resource |
| The Value of Pi - This resource gives a brief history of pi and its computed values. - Direct to Web Resource |
