Estimate it!
About how many centimeters wide is your thumbnail?
1 cm
How many inches is your name tag?
_____ in.
With which unit would you measure a crayon? a. centimeters b. meters
a. centimeters
How many inches are in one foot?
12 inches
Nathan's paper was 12 inches long. How many feet was his paper?
1 foot
Estimate how tall the door is in meters.
2 meters
How many centimeters long is a paperclip?
____ cm
With which unit would you measure a soccer field? a. inches or centimeters b. feet c. yards or meters
c. yards or meters
How many feet are in one yard?
3 feet.
Franchesca measured that her dresser was 2 yards long. How many feet did she have?
6 feet
Which is the best estimate for height of the whiteboard? a. 4 feet b. 10 feet c. 1 foot
a. 4 feet
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)
With which unit would you measure the height of a person?
feet
How many centimeters are in one meter?
100 centimeters.
Ahmya measured that her bathtub was 140 centimeters long. Was her bathtub longer or shorter than 1 meter?
a. longer than one meter. (Because 1 meter = 100 cm. 140 cm > 100 cm... so the bathtub is longer than 1 meter.)
Which is the best estimate for height of Miss Squiller? a. 5 feet b. 5 meters c. 5 centimeters
a. 5 feet
Would you use a meter stick or a ruler to measure the distance from your desk to the bathroom?
meter stick
With which unit would you measure the length of our library? a. feet b. centimeters c. yards or meters
c. yards or meters.
If 12 inches are in 1 foot, how many inches are in 2 feet?
24 inches
Giselle measured that her pencil was 4 centimeters long. Nino measured that his pencil was 5 inches long. Who had the longer pencil?
Nino (because an inch is longer than a centimeter!)
Which is the best estimate for the height of a stopsign? a. 10 feet b. 10 inches c. 10 meters
a. 10 feet
How many inches long is your desk?
______ in.
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.
If 3 feet are in 1 yard, how many feet are in 3 yards?
9 feet.
Marcus measured that the bookcase was 7 feet long. Mikaela measured that the bulletin board was 2 yards long. Which was longer, the bulletin board or the bookcase?
The bookcase, because the bookcase was 2 yards and 1 foot long.