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What would be the most appropriate unit of measurement to measure the capacity of a water bottle?
Millilitres
What would be the most appropriate unit of measurement to measure the weight of a lollipop?
Grams
What is the most appropriate unit of measurement to weigh a human?
Kilograms
What is the most appropriate unit of measurement to measure the length of a classroom?
Metres
What does capacity mean?
How much something can hold
What does volume mean?
How much space is taken up.
What does weight mean?
How heavy or light something is
What does length mean?
How long or short something is
If a pencil broken in half is 13cm, how many centimetres will the full pencil be?
26cm
If one lollipop weighs 9g, how many grams will 3 lollipops weigh?
27g
If one strawberry weighs 4g, then how many grams will 4 strawberries weigh?
16g
If a jug has a capacity of 1l and 500ml and it is filled with 450ml of juice, how much juice do you need to fill the jug with until it reaches capacity?
1l and 50ml
What is 400cm in metres?
4m
What is 10cm in millimetres?
100mm
What is 1.5m in centimetres?
150cm
What is 350mm in centimetres?
35cm
When using a ruler with a space before the 0, what must you always remember to do?
Line the 0 up with the start of what you are measuring
Why is it important to use standardised units?
They are more reliable and accurate
How do we calculate the area of a shape using 1cm squares?
Count up the number of 1cm squares and use the units cm2
How do we measure an object that is in the middle of a ruler?
Look at the length of space that the object takes up, not the last amount that it ends at