measure with a ruler


  • Fractional Units of Ruler – Instructional Strategy

    Fractional Units of Ruler – Instructional Strategy

    The fractional units of a ruler and measuring fractional lengths can be tricky, especially for students with processing, working memory, or visual related disabilities. For the students I have helped, here is the approach I have used. I relate the fractional marks and counting them to walking across a set of stepping stones. This ties…


  • Fractional Units of Ruler – Instructional Strategy

    Fractional Units of Ruler – Instructional Strategy

    The fractional units of a ruler and measuring fractional lengths can be tricky, especially for students with processing, working memory, or visual related disabilities. For the students I have helped, here is the approach I have used. I relate the fractional marks and counting them to walking across a set of stepping stones. This ties…


  • Online Floating Rulers to Measure Length

    To help students learn how to measure with a ruler, I focus on minimizing the number of tic marks on the ruler at first. The image below shows an excerpt from a WORD document with a halves ruler that I use and an instructional strategy. It also contains a quarters and an eighths ruler that…