Chapter 9

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Practice 1 Comparing Two Things
Circle the correct answer.
Example
Which is longer?
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1. Who is taller?

2. Which is shorter?

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Fill in the blanks.
Example
Which is longer?
Which is shorter?
caterpillar snake
The snake is longer than the caterpillar.

The caterpillar is shorter than the snake.
Which is taller?
The giraffe is than the tree.
The tree is than the giraffe.

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4. Which is longer?
Which is shorter
The train is than the truck.
The truck is than the train.
Which is taller?
swan duck
The duck is than the swan.
The swan is than the duck.
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Draw.
Example
a longer arrow
6. a shorter tree


7. a longer and taller ship

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Practice 2 Comparing More Than Two Things

Look at the picture.
Fill in the blanks with the correct names.
Rolo Lad Biff

1. is taller than Biff.

2. Biff is taller than .
3. So, Lad is also taller than .
Read.
Then draw the tails on the mouse and dog.
4. The mouse’s tail is longer than the cat’s tail.
The cat’s tail is longer the dog’s tail.
So, the mouse’s tail is longer than the dog’s tail.

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Color.
Example
the longest string of beads
5. the shortest vegetable


6. the girl with the longest hair

7. the tallest animal


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Fill in the blanks with taller, tallest, shorter, or shortest.
elephant giraffe
ostrich bear
8. The giraffe is the animal.

9. The ostrich is than the bear.
10. The animal is the bear.
11. The ostrich is than the elephant.

Fill in the blanks.
very curly wire

curly wire
straight wire
12. The is longer than the curly wire.
13. The curly wire is longer than the .
14. The is the longest wire.


Math Journal
Help Jamie put his toys away. Read.
Then cut out the toys on page 233 and paste them on the shelf.

1st shelf

2nd shelf
1st shelf • teddy bear

• toy taller than the teddy bear
2nd shelf • toy shorter than the teddy bear

• longest toy
• toy shorter than the toy train

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%

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Practice 3 Using A Start Line

Cut out the caterpillars.
Paste them on the box in the order shown.
1.
Longest

Start Line
Shortest
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%
%
% %
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Draw 2 more pencils.
Color the longest pencil blue.
Color the shortest pencil green.
2. Start Line

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Practice 4 Measuring Things

Count.
Fill in the blanks.
Example
The pen is about 6 long.

1.
The comb is about long.
2.
The umbrella is about long.
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3.
The oven is about long.
4.

The photo frame is about long.
5.

The envelope is about long.

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Fill in the blanks.

What is the length of each tape?
Example
tape
buttons
pegs
The tape is about 8 buttons long.
It is about 2 pegs long.

6.
The tape is about buttons long.
It is about pegs long.
7.

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8.
9.

It is about peg long.

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Practice 5 Finding Length in Units

Count.
Fill in the blanks.
Example
1 stands for 1 unit.
The spoon is about 4 units long.

1. 1 stands for 1 unit.
The book is about units long.
2. 1 stands for 1 unit.

The bat is about units long.
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Fill in the blanks.
A
B C D
1 unit

3. Footprint A is 4 units long.
4. Footprint B is units long.
5. Footprint C is units long.
6. Footprint D is units long.
7. Footprint is the longest.
8. Footprint is shorter than Footprint A.

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Fill in the blanks.
E
D
B
C

9. Strip is the longest.
It is units long.
This is ten and ones.
10. Strip is the shortest.

It is units long.
11. Strip is as long as Strip .
12. Strip is shorter than Strip C but longer than Strip E.

It is units long.
This is ten and one.
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Fill in the blanks. Use numbers or the words in the box.
short
shorter
shortest
taller

tallest
longer
longest

13. The table is units long.
14. The bookshelf is units tall.
15. Look at the stool, the table, and the bookshelf.

The bookshelf is the thing.
The stool is than the table.
16. The vase is the thing in the room.
17. The string from the light is than the pole

of the fan.

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Put On Your Thinking Cap!

Challenging Practice
Solve.
Mae moves the counters on a board.
The arrows show the moves.
1. Which counter makes the longest move?

2. Which counter makes the shortest move?

3. Which counter moves 5 squares?
4. Which counters move the same length?

and .
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Three boys are lying on a mat.
1 un
it
Ben
Charlie
Alan


5. Who is the tallest?
6. Who is the shortest?
Write the names of the girls in the boxes.

7. Tia is taller than Nora.
Sue is the tallest.

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Look at the picture and read.

Then draw.
stands for 1 unit.

Straw A
X
P
8. Draw a straw as long as Straw A.

Start at P.
9. Draw a straw longer than Straw A.

Start at X.
Arrange the bears in order.

Write the letter.
10.

tallest

Put On Your Thinking Cap!
Problem Solving
Fill in the blanks.

1. Tim, Ella, Rosa, and Ling knit some scarves.
Who does each scarf belong to?

Scarf A

Scarf B
Scarf C
Scarf D
Ella’s scarf is longer

than Ling’s scarf. Rosa’s scarf
is the longest.
Ling’s scarf is longer

than Tim’s scarf.

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Chapter Review/Test
Vocabulary
Match.
1. short • •
tall • •
•
short •
long • •
Write longest or shortest.
2. pencil
ruler
paper clip
The paper clip is the .
The ruler is the .

Concepts and Skills
Draw a start line.
Read and color.
3. Color the longest ribbon yellow.
Color the shortest ribbon blue.

Fill in the blanks.

4.
The boy is about long.
This is ten and ones.
He is about long.

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Problem Solving
Solve.


Madison Jimar Patch
5. Madison is units tall.
6. Patch is units tall and units long.
7. The longest balloon is units long.
8. Whose balloon has the longest string?


Solve.
9. Three children are on stage.

Ben is taller than Ally. You may draw a
Charlie is shorter than Ben. picture to help you
Ally is the shortest.
Who is the tallest?
is the tallest.
Who is not the shortest and not the tallest?


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Lesson 1 Comparing Two Things 225

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The snake is longer than the caterpillar.

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The giraffe is than the tree.

The tree is than the giraffe.

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The train is than the truck.

The truck is than the train.

The duck is than the swan.

The swan is than the duck.

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Practice 2 Comparing More Than Two Things

Rolo Lad Biff

1. is taller than Biff.

3. So, Lad is also taller than .

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5. the shortest vegetable

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7. the tallest animal

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Fill in the blanks with taller, tallest, shorter, or shortest.

8. The giraffe is the animal.

10. The animal is the bear.

11. The ostrich is than the elephant.

Look at the picture.

very curly wire

12. The is longer than the curly wire.

13. The curly wire is longer than the .

14. The is the longest wire.

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1st shelf • teddy bear

2nd shelf • toy shorter than the teddy bear

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Lesson 2 Comparing More Than Two Things 233

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Practice 3 Using A Start Line

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Practice 4 Measuring Things

The pen is about 6 long.

The comb is about long.

The umbrella is about long.

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The oven is about long.

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2nd shelf • toy shorter than the teddy bear