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Measurement: Mm, Cm, M, Km MEASUREMENT: A millimetre - you can understand - MM, CM, M, KM is about as long as a grain of sand. When you buy food at lunch time, NAME: it’s about the thickness of a dime. DATE: A staple - from side to side - is about one centimetre wide. A fingernail on a girl or guy is about a centimetre high. Ten millimetres is a centimetre. WATCH VIDEO One hundred centimetres is a metre. One thousand metres - that’s a kilometre, and it’s the same for grams and litres. A school bus wheel’s diameter is about one metre, and a metre is about as far as the length of a guitar. Run ten soccer fields in a row... about a kilometre you’ll go. It’s about how far you’d walk if you crossed twelve city blocks. Imagine holding a grain of sand (about a millimetre!), or a marble in your hand (about a centimetre!), a door handle from the floor (about a metre!), a ten-minute walk on the shore (about a kilometre!) 1 www.numberock.com MEASUREMENT: A _______________ - you can understand - MM, CM, M, KM is about as long as a grain of sand. When you buy food at lunch time, NAME: it’s about the thickness of a ________________. DATE: A staple - from side to side - is about one _______________ wide. A fingernail on a girl or guy is about a centimetre high. Ten millimetres is a _______________. One hundred centimetres is a _______________. One thousand metres - that’s a _______________, and it’s the same for _______________ and _______________. A school bus wheel’s diametre is about one _______________, and a metre is about as far as the length of a ______________. Run ten soccer fields in a row... about a _______________ you’ll go. It’s about how far you’d walk if you crossed _______________ city blocks. Imagine holding a grain of sand (about a _______________!), or a marble in your hand (about a _______________!), a door handle from the floor (about a _______________!), a ten-minute walk on the shore (about a _______________!), 2 www.numberock.com MEASUREMENT: 1) Write the correct length on each line to make each MM, CM, M, KM expression true: Word Bank a) Millimetre = _______________ 1/10 of a centimetre NAME: b) Centimetre=_______________ 1000 metres DATE: c) Metre =_______________ 100 centimetres d) Kilometre =_______________ 10 millimetres 2) Match each distance with the most reasonable unit: a) The length of twelve city blocks Word Bank b) The length of a grain of sand MM c) The length of a guitar CM d) The height of a fingernail M e) The length of a ten-minute walk KM f) The height of a door handle g) The diameter of a small marble 3) Convert: Show your work if necessary. a) 10 Centimetres = Millimetres b) 100 Millimetres = Centimetres c) 1000 Metres = Kilometres d) 2 Kilometres = Metres e) 15 Metres = Centimetres f) 2000 Centimetres= Metres 4) Challenge Conversions: Show your work if necessary. a) 105 Millimetres = Centimetres Millimetres b) 539 Millimetres= Centimetres Millimetres c) 1043 Metres = Kilometres Metres d) 239 Centimetres = Metres Centimetres e) 152 Metres = Kilometres Metres f) 3042 Millimetres = M CM________MM 3 www.numberock.com MEASUREMENT: 5) Fill in the square with > or < to complete the inequality MM, CM, M, KM sentence: NAME: DATE: a) 5 Kilometres 500 Metres b) 28 Centimetres 120 Millimetres c) 8 Metres 6,000 Millimetres d) 59 Kilometres 5,901 Metres e) 488 Millimetres 50 Centimetres f) 15 Metres 1 Kilometre 4 www.numberock.com MEASUREMENT: 1) Fill in the blanks to make each expression true: MM, CM, M, KM a) ____________millimetres equals one centimetre b) ____________centimetres equals one metre NAME: c) ____________metres equals on kilometre DATE: 2) Fill in the chart with the correct numbers for each unit: a) 5 centimetres = ____________ millimetres b) 3000 metres = ____________ kilometres 3) Kimmy and Jayla raced each other in the 400 metre dash. It was a photo finish, with Jayla winning by only 50 millimetres. How many centimetres did Kimmy lose by? 5 www.numberock.com MEASUREMENT: 1) Fill in the blanks to make each expression true: MM, CM, M, KM a) ____________millimetres equals one centimetre b) ____________centimetres equals one meter NAME: c) ____________metres equals on kilometre DATE: 2) Fill in the chart with the correct numbers for each unit: a) 5 centimetres = ____________ millimetres b) 3000 metres = ____________ kilometres 3) Kimmy and Jayla raced each other in the 400 metre dash. It was a photo finish, with Jayla winning by only 50 millimetres. How many centimetres did Kimmy lose by? 5 www.numberock.com MEASUREMENT: Circle the best estimate for the measurement that is the MM, CM, M, KM most appropriate for each item: DRILLS 1) A frog’s length. 2) The length of a 3) The length of a NAME: space shuttle. raincoat. DATE: SYMBOLS - millimeter (mm) - centimeter (cm) 4 cm 4 m 59 km 59 m 1 m 1 cm - meter (m) - kilometer (km) 4) A parrot’s height. 5) A bear’s height 6) A mouse’s length. while standing. 30 m 30 cm 140 cm 140 km 7 cm 7 m 7) A bison’s length. 8) An armadillo’s 9) The length of a length. plane. 3 cm 3 m 1 m 1 km 30 m 30 mm 10) The length of a 11) The length of a 12) The length of a guitar. boat. carrot. 1 cm 1 m 10 m 10 km 26 cm 26 mm 6 www.numberock.com MEASUREMENT: 1) Convert: Show your work if necessary: MM, CM, M, KM a) 8 Centimetres = Millimetres HOMEWORK b) 27 Metres= Centimetres NAME: DATE: c) 40 Millimetres = Centimetres d) 6 Kilometres = Metres e) 7 Centimetres = Millimetres f) 2 Metres = Centimetres g) 50 Millimetres = Centimetres h) 4 Kilometres = Metres 2) Challenge Conversions: Show your work if necessary: a) 3500 Millimetres = Metres Centimetres b) 490 Centimetres= Metres Centimetres c) 2009 Metres = Kilometres Metres d) 3004 Millimetres = Metres Millimetres e) 2930 Metres = Kilometres Metres 7 www.numberock.com MEASUREMENT: PAGE 2 MM, CM, M, KM millimetre, dime, centimetre, centimetre, metre, kilometre, ANSWER KEY grams, litres metre, guitar, kilometre, twelve, millimetre, centimetre, metre, kilometre PAGE 3 1) a) 1/10 of a centimetre b) 10 millimetres c) 100 centimetres d) 1000 metres 2) a) KM b) MM c) M d) CM e) KM f) M g) CM 3) a) 100 b) 10 c) 1 d) 2000 e) 1500 f) 20 4) a) 10 centimetres, 5 millimetres b) 53 centimetres, 9 millimetres c) 1 kilometre, 43 metres d) 2 metres, 39 centimetres e) 0 kilometres, 152 metres f) 3 metres, 4 centimetres, 2 millimetres PAGE 4 5) a) > b) > c) > d) > e) < f) < PAGE 5 1) a) 10 b) 100 c) 1000 2) a) 50 b) 3 3) Kimmy lost the race by 5 centimetres. 8 www.numberock.com MEASUREMENT: PAGE 6 MM, CM, M, KM 1) 4 cm 2) 59 m 3) 1m 4) 30 cm ANSWER KEY 5) 140 cm 6) 7 cm 7) 3 m 8) 1 m 9) 30 m 10) 1 m 11) 10 m 12) 26 cm PAGE 7 1) a) 80 b) 2,700 c) 4 d) 6000 e) 70 f) 200 g) 5 h) 4,000 2) a) 3, 50 b) 4, 90 c) 2, 9 d) 3, 4 e) 2, 930 9 www.numberock.com.
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