{"id":73815,"date":"2020-06-08T13:05:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T17:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=73815"},"modified":"2020-06-22T11:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T15:18:00","slug":"the-broken-ruler","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/math\/math-grades-1-3\/investigations\/the-broken-ruler\/","title":{"rendered":"The Broken Ruler"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Investigations<\/h5>\n<h3>Materials:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>copy of the broken ruler (if you don\u2019t have access to a printer you can make your own copy)<\/li>\n<li>paper<\/li>\n<li>pencil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73816 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/06\/Ruler.png\" alt=\"Ruler starting at 6cm and ending with 12cm.\" width=\"624\" height=\"59\" srcset=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/06\/Ruler.png 624w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/06\/Ruler-300x28.png 300w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/06\/Ruler-165x16.png 165w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Have your child cut out the broken ruler.<\/p>\n<p>Ask your child to use the \u2018broken ruler\u2019 to measure:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The length of something shorter than the ruler<\/li>\n<li>The length of something longer than the ruler<\/li>\n<li>The perimeter (distance around an object) of something rectangular (e.g., book, table, box)<\/li>\n<li>Can you find something that is 10 centimetres long?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Helpful Hints and Possible Questions:<\/h3>\n<p>If it\u2019s hard to measure starting with 6 how could you make it easier?<br \/>\nHow long is the broken ruler in centimetres?<br \/>\n(add numbers below the existing numbers starting with 0 under the 6)<\/p>\n<p>When you are measuring should you start at the edge of the ruler or at the line above the 6? Why?<\/p>\n<p>How can you accurately measure something that is longer than the ruler?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it\u2019s hard to measure starting with 6 how could you make it easier? How long is the broken ruler in centimetres?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72786,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73815","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73815\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}