The Spotlight on Teaching and Learning at the beginning of this chapter discusses the emphasis in the Common Core State Standard
s for Mathematics on learning about measurement by measuring real objects. Look back at this page and respond to the first “Think About This” question by giving a specific description of an activity that would involve second-graders in learning to measure length and selecting an appropriate tool to use.
The segment MN is equal in size to the segment JK, the segment NO is equal in size to the segment KL, the segment OP is equal in size to the segment LP.