Rich Learning Tasks

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Name:

How Many Units?

You will need:

Paper clips of different sizes.

You are going to measure this red line with paper clips.

First, choose a paper clip so that it takes A LOT of them to

measure the line.

Then choose another size paper clip so that it doesn’t take

TOO MANY.

Can you choose a paper clip so that it takes more than 3, but

fewer than 5 to measure the line?

Measurement