Converting Units
It is 1:13 pm and school gets at 3:30. How many minutes left are in the school day?
147 minutes left in the day
120 minutes (2 hours) + 17 min.
A garden has a side length of 123 ft. The other side is 48 ft. What is the perimeter of the garden?
P = 342 ft.
(123 x 2) + (48 x 2)
Bobbie was writing an article for the school newspaper about the amount of homework the 4th-grade teachers were assigning. He was surprised to find out that the average student only spent 15 minutes per night doing homework. To make it sound longer, he decided to convert the time from minutes to seconds in the article. How many seconds did the average student spend on homework?
900 seconds
Which type of measurement would you probably measure in meters:
1) The height of a house 2) The distance between two states 3) The weight of a person 4) The amount of water in a bottle
1) The height of a house
Sarah is 12 years old. How many months is this?
144 months
How many decimeters are in 20 meters?
200 decimeters
Nikki planned to buy a wallpaper border for her bedroom. She measured the lengths of the walls and found the perimeter of her room. Her room was shaped like a rectangle with a length of 12.5 feet and a width of 14 feet. What is the perimeter?
P = 53 ft.
Christina had a rectangular garden with a perimeter of 36 feet. The fence surrounding it was falling down on one of the short sides (width). If the length of the garden was 10 feet, how many feet of the fence did she need to replace the broken portion (width) of the fence?
8 feet
Which unit could be used to measure the weight of a ten-year-old?
kilograms or pounds
Students are typically in school for 180 days. How many weeks is this?
25.7 weeks 25 or 26 is an acceptable answer
How many milliliters are in a three 2 liter bottles of pop?
6,000 mL
If the perimeter of a square is 48 cm, what is the length of each side?
12 cm
Ethan drove 640 miles in 5 days. If Ethan drove the same number of miles each day, how many miles did he drive each day?
128 miles each day
Which is most likely the length of a telephone book?
1) 30 kilometers 2) 30 centimeters 3) 30 millimeters 4) 30 meters
2) 30 centimeters
Mike swims for 14 hours per week. How many minutes is this in one month?
3,360 minutes per month
Suzie weighs 25 kilograms. How many centigrams does she weigh?
2,500,000 centigrams
What is the width of a rectangle that has a length of 6 feet and an area of 72 square feet?
12 feet
Greg has a desk that is four feet wide and ten feet long. What is the area of the desk? How many inches would this be?
40 square feet (That is a really big desk!)
480 inches
Mrs. Morel is 5'10. How many inches is this?
70 inches
John is 8 years old. Mary is 12 years old. What is their age difference in weeks?
4 years difference = 208 weeks difference in age
James looked at the calendar and realized that he had 5 weeks until his birthday. How many hours is that?
840 hours
(35 days x 24 hours/day)
A square has a perimeter of 20 inches. What is the length of each side of this square? What is the area?
5 inches is the length of each side.
A = 25 sq. inches
Brad decided to cook and the recipe called for 2 quarts of buttermilk and 1 pint of heavy cream. How many total cups were used for the buttermilk and heavy cream?
10 cups
I try to walk about 6 miles per day. How many feet is this? How many inches?
31,680 ft.
380,160 inches
Michael walks to soccer practice each day. It takes him 16 minutes to get to practice. He arrives to practice by 3:00 pm. He then has to walk home after practice. If he gets home by 5:14 pm, what was the elapsed time from when he left school to when he arrived home?
2 hours and 14 min. + 16 min = 2 hours and 30 minutes