Converting Units
Area and Perimeter
Story Problems
Measuring using common tools and units
Grab Bag
100
It is 1:30 pm and there are 1.5 hours left in the school day. This is how many minutes are left in the school day.
What is 90 minutes?
100
This is the surface area of a cube with sides that have a length and width of 5 inches.
What is 150 square inches?
100
Bobbie was writing an article for the school newspaper about the amount of homework the 4th grade teachers were assigning. He was surprised to find out that the average student spent only 15 minutes per night doing homework. To make it sound longer, he decided to convert the time from minutes to seconds in the article. This is the number of seconds the average student spent on homework.
What is 900 seconds?
100
It's what you would probably measure in meters - the height of a house, the distance between two states, the weight of a person, or the volume of water in a bottle.
What is the height of a house?
100
These are 2 right angles in the room.
What are...?
200
This is how many centimeters are in 20 meters.
What is 2,000 centimeters?
200
Nikki planned to buy a wall paper border for her bedroom. She measured the lengths of the walls and found the perimeter of her room. Her room was shaped like a rectangle with a length of 12 feet and a width of 10 feet. This is the perimeter.
What is 44 feet?
200
Carina had a rectangular garden with a perimeter of 36 feet. The fence surrounding it was falling down on one of the short sides (width). If the length of the garden was 10 feet, this is how many feet of fence she needed to replace the broken portion (width) of the fence.
What is 8 feet?
200
These are the units that could be used to measure the weight of a ten year old.
What are kilograms or pounds?
200
This angle (obtuse, acute, or right) is formed by the hands on the clock at 3:00.
What is a right angle?
300
This is how many milliliters are in three 2 liter bottles of pop.
What is 6,000 mL?
300
If the perimeter of a square is 48 cm, this is the length of each side.
What is 12 cm?
300
Ethan drove 640 miles in 5 days. If Ethan drove the same number of miles each day, this is how many miles he drove each day.
What is 128 miles each day?
300
This is most likely the length of Seaman's Journal-On the Trail with Lewis and Clark: 30 kilometers 30 centimeters 30 millimeters 30 meters
What is 30 centimeters?
300
This is the smallest number that is a multiple of 3 and a factor of 12.
What is 3?
400
Suzie weighs 25 kilograms. This is how many grams she weighs.
What is 25,000 grams?
400
This is the width of a rectangle that has a length of 6 feet and an area of 60 square feet.
What is 10 feet?
400
Greg has an enormous desk that is four feet wide and ten feet long. This is the area of the desk.
What is 40 square feet?
400
It's the list below that shows the temperatures in order from coldest to hottest. 0°C, -10°C, 10°C, 100°C -10°C, 10°C, 0°C, 100°C 10°C, 0°C, 10°C, 100°C 100°C, 10°C, 0°C, -10°C
-10°C, 0°C, 10°C, 100°C
400
This is the answer to 1/2 + 3/4.
What is 5/4 or 1 1/4?
500
Jacob looked at the calendar and realized that he had exactly 5 weeks until his birthday. This is how many days until his birthday.
What is 35 days?
500
A square has a perimeter of 20 inches and an area of 25 square inches. This is the length of each side of this square.
What is 5 inches?
500
Brad bought 33 cents worth of candy at the store. Brad gave the cashier a dollar bill. This is how much change Brad should receive.
What is 67 cents?
500
It's the warmest temperature listed below. -10°F 0°F -2°F 5°F
What is 5°F?
500
This is 8,934 divided by 2.
What is 4,467?