Curriculum placement
Grade 3. This describes the skill, not a learner estimate.
Mass and liquid volume
Solve measurement problems involving mass and liquid volume
Problem types
- Read liters on a scale
- Find a mass with a balance
- Mass and volume stories
- Reading a thermometer
Builds on
- Multiplication and division word problems
- Comparing length, weight, and capacity · Earlier idea
Comparing which of two objects is heavier or holds more becomes measuring with a balance or reading a liquid volume.
Leads to
- Volume of cylinders, cones, and spheres · See it applied
The volume of liquid that fills a cylinder is found with the cylinder volume formula and read in liquid-volume units.
- Modeling density · See it applied
Density compares the mass of a material with its volume, both measured with the tools used for mass and volume.
Related skills
- Reading scaled picture and bar graphs · Related idea
Reading the top of a thermometer's liquid and reading the top of a bar both mean finding what one gridline is worth and counting up from a labeled line.
- Converting to a smaller unit · Related idea
Measuring mass and volume uses metric units. Renaming one metric unit as another multiplies or divides by ten, one hundred or one thousand.
- Multi-operation word problems · Shared foundations
- Additive and multiplicative comparison · Shared foundations
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