6th Grade Math Textbook, Progress

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Measurement V

Read an Inch Ruler

The tick marks on the scale of a ruler

represent fractional parts of an inch.

The length of the tick mark indicates the

particular part of an inch: half, fourth,

eighth, or sixteenth. This helps you read

and record measures in lowest terms.

Read: 1 

Record: 1 in. or 1 in. or 1 in.

12

16

6

8

3

4

3

4

eighths halves

Think

On this ruler, the distance between

one tick mark and the next is 161 in.

Think

134 in. is in lowest terms.

sixteenths fourths

Read each length and record it in lowest terms.

Then give the length in as many ways as you can.

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