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Grade: 7
(also appropriate for advanced 6th graders)
Standards: 7.RP.3
Description: Students will use proportions and proportional reasoning to accurately calculate how tall something is without actually measuring the height of that object - since it is really tall and they can't! Students will utilize the concepts of ratios, proportions, and indirect measurement to accomplish this.