Non-Standard Units
Your fingertip is _____cm?
1 cm
The short form for millimetre is _______.
mm
cm
m
How many seconds are in one minute?
To measure a pencil, you should use a baseball bat. True or False?
False.
10mm
A ruler normally has ______cm.
30cm
1m = ____cm
100cm
How many minutes are in 1 hour?
60 minutes = 1 hour
Why is it important to use the same-sized objects when measuring with non-standard units?
To get an accurate measurement
Which is smaller, a millimetre or a centimetre?
mm
If a chair is 30cm long and a desk is 80cm, how much longer is the desk?
80 - 30 = 50cm
300cm = _____m
3m
How many minutes are in 2 hours?
60 minutes = 1 hour
60 + 60 = 120 minutes (2 hours)
If a pencil is 5 paperclips long and you have 4 pencils, how many paperclips long are all 4 pencils if they were lined up?
5 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 20cm
Which is smaller: 30mm or 2cm
2cm
1cm, 20mm, 40mm, 6cm, 80mm
False. 1km = 1000m
If you go to sleep at 9:00 PM and wake up at 6:00 AM, how many hours did you sleep?
9 hours
A toy bus is 10 coins long. What might happen if you used a straw to measure instead of coins?
The measurement will be different because 1 straw is longer than 1 coin.
If a pencil is 150mm, how may centimetres is it?
15cm
If a table is 120cm, how many metres is that?
1m and 20cm
1.2m
50cm = 0.5m
True or False?
True.
You can watch a 5 movies in 1 hour. True or False?
False. 1 movie = 1-2 hours