Enter Title

Estimate It

100

Your pinky is this many centimeters wide.

1 cm

200

The door is about this many meters.

2 meters

300

The best estimate for the width of your Chromebook is: 

1. Meter stick   2. Ruler    3. Football field

Ruler

400

Ms. Lapaglia is about this tall: 

1. One and half meter sticks   

2. 100 cm  

 3. 1000 cm

One and half meter sticks

500

The best estimate of the length of a piece of paper is:

1. 2 cm   2. 20 cm   3. 200 cm

20 cm

Measure It

100

How long is your pencil? 

____ cm

200

How many cm long is your foot? 

_____ cm

300

If an eyebrow is about 3 cm long, about how many cm long are two eyebrows?

6 cm

400

Would you use a meterstick or a ruler to measure the distance from your bed to your driveway?

Meterstick

500

How many cm long is a ruler?

Between 30 and 31

Which Unit?

100

With with unit would you measure a crayon?

Meter or centimeter

centimeters

200

With which unit would you measure a soccer field?

Meter or centimeter

Meter

300

With which unit would you measure the height of a person? 

Meter or centimeter

400

With which unit would you measure the length of a library?

Meter or centimeter

Meters

500

With which unit would you measure the length of a person's ear?

Meter or centimeter

Centimeters

Random

100

If you don't have a ruler, what could you measure with? 

Answers vary - anything that has consistent measurement, like centimeter cubes, paperclips, same lego block, etc.

200

How many centimeters are in a meter?

100

300

If a line measure 7 paper clips long and the same line measured 21 cm. Why did it take more centimeters than paper clips?

Centimeters are smaller so it takes more of them to measure. 

400

If 30 cm are in one ruler, how many cm are in two rulers?

60 cm

500

What does the prefix cent mean?

100

Word Problems

100

Zailey's paper was 30 cm long. Adriana's paper was 15 cm longer. How long was Adriana's paper?

45 cm long

200

Zane threw the ball to Zander a total of 3 meters. How many centimeters did Zane throw the ball?

300 cm

300

Avory measured that her bathtub was 140 centimeters long. Was her bathtub longer or shorter than 1 meter? How do you know?

Longer - 100 cm = 1 meter

400

Hayven and Holly drew lines. Hayven's line was 41 cm long. Holly's line was 19 cm longer than Hayven's. How long was Holly's line?

41+19=60cm

500

Max's tower of blocks is 30 cm tall. Sam's tower is 9 cm shorter than Max's. What is the total height of both towers?

30-9=21

21+30=51

The towers are 51 cm tall.