To summarize the lesson, have students refer to their rulers and ask:
- How could a 12-inch ruler have helped the king
and the apprentice? (If they had a ruler with
inches, they could both use the same unit of measure
to measure the queen and the bed. They
would not have gotten so confused.)
- Imagine you have to teach the king about inches.
How big would you tell him an inch is? (Answers
will vary. Possible responses: about half of my
pinkie; the length of my pencil-top eraser)
- What did you find that was about as long as your
ruler, or 12 inches long? (Answers will vary.)
- Pretend that the king said, "The queen's new bed
is 5 inches long." Would you say "That could be"
or "That's crazy"? Why? (That's crazy! The queen
could not sleep in a bed that small.)
- Could be or crazy? The queen said, "My hair brush
is 10 inches long." (could be)
- Could be or crazy? The apprentice said, "My hammer
is 12 inches long." (could be)
- Could be or crazy? The king said, "My chair is
6 inches long." (crazy)
Assign the Could Be or Crazy page in the Student Activity Book.
Use the Could Be or Crazy page in the Student Activity Book
to assess students' abilities to measure and estimate length
using inches [E9].
