Non-Standard Measurement Poem

Getting creative by making a fun poem that can be used to introduce the concept of non-standard measurement!

In this poem, it talks about forms of non-standard measurement and is a good introduction to non-standard measurement as it explains what non-standard measurement is and the different objects you can use to measure things. In the poem, it explains that there is no ruler to measure things around the room. It takes the example of a broom and measures it using two non-standard units and uncovers that there are two different answers, since two different units were used (pencils and cubes). It gives the example of pencils and cubes as non-standard units and states that these are just two examples of non-standard measurement.

"I see pencils, I see cubes, I see many things we can use. The broom is 15 pencils and 50 cubes tall."

Supporting Children's Learning of Measurement

It will support children’s inquiries about measurement as it demonstrates to children that measurement does not always need to happen with a ruler, but with common and easily found objects. The poem gives concrete examples of commonly found objects that you can use with non-standard units such as pencils or cubes, demonstrating to students that you can use anything object to measure ranging from manipulatives to commonly used objects. Furthermore, the poem shows that if we measure the object with two different non-standard units the answers won’t always be the same. This supports the children’s learning of non-standard measurement as they can investigate why there are two different measurements and if standard measurement is more valid than non-standard measurement. Again, this allows them to connect this measurement poem to things they use in their daily lives and gets them thinking about objects/events in their daily lives in a mathematical lens.

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