Unit of Measure
Customary
Metric
Measuring Length
Measuring Tools
100
Which unit of measure is best used to find the length of a paper clip: centimeter, foot, meter, or yard?
What is a centimeter?
100
Tanya's pencil measures a little less than 5 inches long. What is the length of Tanya's pencil to the nearest inch?
What is 5 inches?
100

Aaliyah wants to measure the length of a pen. Which is the better estimate of the length of the pen: 3 centimeters or 13 centimeters?

What is 13 centimeters?

100
Name the unit used to measure the length of a book.
What is inches (centimeters)?
100
The tool used to measure weight?
What is a scale?
200
Which unit of measure would probably be measured in miles: the length of a stamp, the length of a highway, the length of a pencil, or the length of a room?
What is the length of a highway?
200
How many half inches are there in one whole inch?
What is 2 half inches?
200
Ms. Foster measured the length of the garden. It measured 9 meters long. How many centimeters long was the garden?
What is 900 centimeters long?
200

25 cm + 30 cm?

55 cm

200
A tool used to measure length?
What is a ruler?
300
What unit of measure would you use to measure a piece of chalk: millimeter, meter, or kilometer?
What is millimeter?
300
Nicole and Gavin made banners. Nicole's banner is 3 yards long. Gavin's banner is 6 feet long. Who made the longer banner?
Who is Nicole?
300

Suppose you measure a pencil in inches or meters?

Inches

300
The number of centimeters in a meter.
What is 100?
300

A tool used to measure a bookshelf?

What is a ruler

400
What unit of measure would you use to measure the height of the grass outside: centimeter, meter, or kilometer?
What is centimeter?
400
Sasha has a necklace that measures 15 inches long. Kaitlynn has a necklace that measures 1 foot, 2 inches long. Who has the longer necklace?
Who is Sasha?
400

Joshua cuts a piece of ribbon in half.  It was originally 10 inches. How long is it now?

5 inches

400
The shortest of these measurements: foot, yard, inch.
What is an inch?
400
A tool used to measure time?
What is a clock (stopwatch)?
500

What unit of measure would you use for the string of a kite: centimeter or meter?

What is meter?

500

Peter has a red ribbon and a blue ribbon. The red ribbon is 15 inches and the blue is 20 inches.  How many inches are there all together?

35 inches

500

What unit of measure would you use for the string of a kite: centimeter or meter?

What is meter?

500

The longest of all of these measurements: 4 feet or 2 yards.

What is 2 yards?

500
A tool used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
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