What this lesson shows
Cups of water in ten glasses, an X over each amount.
The worked example
The lesson works this one step by step: Water in each glass, in cups: 2/4, 3/4, 1 1/4, 3/4, 2/4, 1 2/4, 3/4, 1, 1 3/4, 1/4. Then your kid tries one like it on paper.
The steps
- Mark the smallest part
- Halves on fourths ticks
- An X for each amount
Helping at home
Run the line from 0 past the biggest amount, marked in the smallest part in the data. A half on a line in fourths goes on the 2 fourths tick. Then make an X for each amount and count the Xs.
If your kid gets stuck
Mark the line in the smallest part.
Watch it with Lux
With Lux, this lesson is a narrated video and a printed page your kid works on. Then Lux helps with the same math on their own worksheet, one question at a time.
Standards
- Common Core 5.MD.B.2
Make a line plot to display a data set of measurements in fractions of a unit (1/2, 1/4, 1/8). Use operations on fractions for this grade to solve problems involving information presented in line plots. For example, given different measurements of liquid in identical beakers, find the amount of liquid each beaker would contain if the total amount in all the beakers were redistributed equally.
Matches standards in 50 statesSee each state's code
- Alabama MA19.5.16a
- Alaska 5.MD.3
- Arizona 5.MD.B.2 *
- Arkansas 5.DA.1, 5.DA.2
- California 5.MD.B.2
- Colorado 5.MD.B.2
- Connecticut 5.MD.B.2
- Delaware 5.MD.B.2
- District of Columbia 5.MD.B.2
- Florida MA.5.DP.1.1
- Georgia 5.MDR.7.2
- Hawaii 5.MD.B.2
- Idaho 5.MD.B.2.a, 5.MD.B.2.b
- Illinois 5.MD.B.2
- Indiana 5.DA.1
- Iowa 5.MD.B.2
- Kansas 5.MD.2
- Kentucky KY.5.MD.2
- Louisiana 5.MD.B.2
- Maine 5.MD.B.2
- Maryland 5.DS.A.1.a
- Massachusetts 5.MD.B.2
- Michigan 5.MD.B.2
- Minnesota 5.4.1.2
- Mississippi 5.MD.2
- Missouri 5.DS.A.1, 5.DS.A.2
- Montana MT.5.MD.2, 5.D1.5
- Nebraska 5.D.2.a
- Nevada 5.MD.B.2
- New Hampshire 5.MD.B.2
- New Jersey 5.DL.A.1, 5.DL.A.2, 5.DL.A.4, 5.DL.B.5
- New Mexico 5.MD.B.2
- New York NY-5.MD.2
- North Carolina NC.5.MD.2.a, NC.5.MD.2.b, NC.5.MD.2.c
- North Dakota 5.DPS.D.1, 5.DPS.D.2
- Ohio 5.MD.2
- Oklahoma 5.D.1.2
- Oregon 5.DR.A.1, 5.DR.B.2
- Pennsylvania CC.2.4.5.A.2, CC.2.4.5.A.4
- Rhode Island 5.MD.B.2
- South Carolina 5.DPSR.1.2
- South Dakota 5.MD.B.2.a, 5.MD.B.2.b
- Tennessee 5.MD.B.2
- Texas 111.7.b.9.A, 111.7.b.9.C
- Utah 5.MD.2
- Vermont 5.MD.B.2
- Virginia 4.PS.1c, 4.PS.1d.i, 4.PS.1d.ii, 4.PS.1d.iii, 4.PS.1d.iv, 4.PS.1d.v, 5.PS.1a, 5.PS.1b, 5.PS.1c, 5.PS.1e.v
- Washington 5.MD.B.2
- West Virginia M.5.19
- Wisconsin M.5.MD.B.2