Unit 6 Contents

1. Use the map, a ruler, and the scale to estimate the distance between object A and object B. Show or tell how you found your estimate.
2. Measure the actual distance between object A and object B.
3. Find the difference between the estimated distance and the actual distance. This is called error.
4. Was your estimate close?
1. Estimate the distance between two objects on the map of the classroom. Show how you found your estimate.
2. Measure the actual distance between the two objects.
3. Find the difference between the estimated distance and the actual distance.
4. Was your estimate close?
5. Here is a map of a playground:

1. Measure to estimate the distance between the flagpole and the slide.
2. Measure to estimate the distance between the slide and the swing set.
3. Measure to estimate the distance between the sand box and the slide.

Use the Professor Peabody's Trip to the Country pages in the Student Activity Book to practice finding distances on a coordinate map using a scale.