Grade 6 · Math · Lesson 36

Scale Drawings and Maps

A scale drawing is a small picture of something big — a town on a map, a house on a blueprint, a stadium on a poster. The drawing shows real shapes, just shrunk down. The scale tells you exactly how much it has been shrunk so you can measure on paper and still talk about real distances.

What this lesson teaches

1Read a map scale and use it to convert map distance into real distance
2Apply a scale factor to find a real length from a drawing length
3Find a drawing length when given the real length and the scale
4Compare two maps or drawings by their scale factors

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