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What is measurement?
Measurement is something we use to find the size or amount of something.
What is Mass? What are some of units we use in the metric system to measure mass?
Mass is a measure of how much matter an object contains. We use grams and kilograms to measure mass.
What is Liquid Volume and what are some of the units we use in the metric system to measure liquid volume?
Liquid volume is a way to measure the amount of liquid by giving a measurement of how much space it occupies. We use liters and milliliters to measure liquid volume.
Zoe's fish tank holds 27 liters of water. She uses a 3-liter container to fill the tank. How many times does she have to fill the 3-liter container in order to fill her fish tank?
9 times
What unit of measurement would you use to estimate the mass of a pen?
gram
What unit of measurement would you use to measure the mass of a bag of flour?
Kilogram
Four families share a basket of 16 kilograms of apples equally. How many kilograms of apples does each family get
4 kilograms
Box A has a mass of 525 grams
Box B has a mass of 487 grams
Box C has a mass of 801 grams
Order the boxes from Heaviest to lightest.
Box C, Box A, Box B
The mass of an empty box is 120 grams.
Mr. Lee puts 860 grams of cherries into the box.
What is the total mass of the box with cherries?
The mass of one packet of nuts is 325 grams.
What is the mass of two packets of nuts?
650 grams
Mr. Nguyen sold 10 bottles of lemonade.
Each bottle contained 2 liters of lemonade.
How many liters of lemonade did Mr. Nguyen sell in all?
10 x 2 = 20
A box of 50 pins weighs 97 grams.
The empty box weighs 47 grams.
What is the mass of 50 pins?
97-47= 50
Luis was served 145 grams of meat and 217 grams of vegetables at a meal. What was the total mass of the meat and vegetables?
362 grams
A nickel has a mass of 5 grams. There are 40 nickels in a roll of nickels. What is the mass of a roll of nickels?
200 grams
What unit of measurement would you use to measure the mass of an elephant, grams or kilograms? Why?
An elephant is large and contains a lot of matter. If I used grams, the number of grams would be gigantic. If I use kilograms, I will get a number of kilograms that is easier to work with.
What unit would you use to find the liquid volume of the water in a eyedropper, liters or milliliters?
The amount of water in an eyedropper is very small so you would want to use a milliliter which is a small unit of liquid volume. A liter is a unit that would be too big.
A scientist needs to put 400 grams of salt into a container. She has already put 175 grams of salt. How many grams of salt does she need to put into the container?
400-175= 225 grams left
What is the definition of Capacity?
Capacity is the amount a container can hold.
There are 26 bags of flour. If each bag is 5kg. What is the total weight of the flour?
26x5=130 Kg
Making 3 dozen muffins requires 12 ounces of sugar. How much sugar is needed for making one dozen muffins?
4 ounces of sugar
There are two eggs on the counter. The large egg weighs 56 grams and the small egg weighs 47 grams. How much heavier is the large egg?
56-47=9 Grams
The wedding cake is 45 ounces and the icing on the cake weighs 12 ounces. The tray on the cake is on weighs 60 ounces. What is the total weight of the cake and the tray?
117 ounces
A box of 12 cookies is 360 grams. What is the weight of 2 cookies?
360 divided by 12 = 30
The weight of 1 cookie is 30 grams
2 x 30=60
The weight of 2 cookies is 60 grams
A carton of milk has 32 fluid ounces. If we pour the milk into four mugs evenly, what is the volume of milk in each mug?
8 fluid ounces of milk
In a water bottle, there are 3 liters of Water. If the capacity of the bottle is 9 liters. How much more is needed to fill up the bottle?
6 Liters are needed to fill up the bottle