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Camping Trip Measures: Water Jugs and Backpacks

Grade 3 camping-themed practice reading scales and balances, estimating mass and liquid volume, and solving one-step problems in grams, kilograms, and liters.

Grade 3MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to3.MD.A.2

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  • Single worksheet
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  • 1 Common Core standard
  • Printable answer key
  • 14 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 3
Subject
Math
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students read scales and balances to measure mass in grams and kilograms and liquid volume in liters.
  • Students estimate masses and liquid volumes of everyday objects using grams, kilograms, and liters.
  • Students solve one-step word problems about masses or liquid volumes given in the same unit.

How to use

Use after students have handled a real balance and a liter container. Have students say what each mark on the scale stands for before reading the dot in Section 1.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

3.MD.A.2

Measure and estimate liquid volume and mass in liters, grams, and kilograms.

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Camping Trip Measures: Water Jugs and Backpacks

Read scales, make estimates, and solve camp problems about mass and liquid volume.

Read the camp scales

Each scale or jug is drawn like a number line. The dot shows the measurement.

1.
Kira puts her backpack on a scale. The scale is marked in kilograms.012345678910

Kira's backpack has a mass of   kilograms.

2.
The camp water jug has marks for liters. The dot shows the top of the water. It is halfway between two marks.02468101214161820

There are   liters of water in the jug.

3.
Theo puts a bag of trail mix on a kitchen scale. The scale is marked in grams.01002003004005006007008009001000

The trail mix has a mass of   grams.

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