Curriculum placement
Grade 3. This describes the skill, not a learner estimate.
Line plots with fractional lengths
Display and interpret fractional length measurements
Problem types
- Line plots with halves and fourths
Builds on
Leads to
- Adding and subtracting from a line plot
- Mean and median · See it applied
The mean of data with fractional measurements adds the values on the line plot, counting each by its number of dots.
- Describing spread and outliers · See it applied
How spread out the fractional measurements are is described by the mean absolute deviation or IQR of the dots.
Related skills
- A fraction as division · Shared foundations
- Fractions shown by a model · Shared foundations
- A fraction times a whole number · Shared foundations
- Fractions on a number line · Shared foundations
- Adding and subtracting like fractions · Shared foundations
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