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Estimate it!
Measure it!
Which unit?
Word Problems
100
About how many centimeters wide is your thumbnail?
1 cm
100

How many inches wide is your whiteboard?

_____ in.

100
With which unit would you measure a crayon? a. centimeters b. meters
a. centimeters
100
Natalie's paper was 12 inches long. How many feet was her paper?
1 foot
200

Estimate how tall the door is in meters.

about 2 meters

200

How many centimeters long is your pencil?

____ cm

200
With which unit would you measure a soccer field? a. inches or centimeters b. feet c. yards or meters
c. yards or meters
200

Katie measured that her dresser was 2 meters long. Her bed is 3 meters longer. How long is her bed?

5 meters

300
Which is the best estimate for height of the whiteboard? a. 4 feet b. 10 feet c. 1 foot
a. 4 feet
300

Tricky!! If an eyebrow is about 3 cm long, about how many inches long is the eyebrow?

1 inch (1 inch = a little less than 3 cm)

300
With which unit would you measure the height of a person?
feet
300

Connor measured that his bathtub was 140 centimeters long. His friend's bathtub is 95 centimeters long. How much shorter is his friend's bathtub?

45 cm shorter

400

Which is the best estimate for height of Mr. Francia? a. 6 feet b. 6 meters c. 6 centimeters

about 6 feet

400
Would you use a yardstick or a ruler to measure the distance from your desk to the bathroom?
yardstick
400

With which unit would you measure the length of our library? a. feet b. centimeters c. meters

c. meters.

400

Joshua measured that his pencil was 4 centimeters long. Kaleb measured that his pencil was 5 inches long. Who had the longer pencil?

Eduardo (because an inch is longer than a centimeter!)

500
Which is the best estimate for the height of a stopsign? a. 10 feet b. 10 inches c. 10 meters
a. 10 feet
500
How many inches long is your desk?
______ in.
500
With which unit would you measure the length of a person's ear? a. centimeters b. feet c. yards Estimate the length of a person's ear.
centimeters. Estimation between 4 and 9 centimeters.
500

Sawyer measured that the bookcase was 10 feet long. Chance measured that the bulletin board was 2 meters long. Which was longer, the bulletin board or the bookcase?

bookcase