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Do You Measure Up?!: Measuring Using Inches Feet Yards Miles

1) The document discusses different units of measurement in the standard US system including inches, feet, yards, and miles. 2) It provides examples of how many inches are in a foot (12 inches) and how many feet are in a yard (3 feet). 3) The document also gives examples of items that might be measured in each unit like pencils in inches, roads in feet, and football fields in yards to help remember the units of measurement.

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Do You Measure Up?!: Measuring Using Inches Feet Yards Miles

1) The document discusses different units of measurement in the standard US system including inches, feet, yards, and miles. 2) It provides examples of how many inches are in a foot (12 inches) and how many feet are in a yard (3 feet). 3) The document also gives examples of items that might be measured in each unit like pencils in inches, roads in feet, and football fields in yards to help remember the units of measurement.

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Do you measure up?!

Measuring using INCHES FEET YARDS MILES

STANDARD SYSTEM - INCHES


Look on your ruler each of the big numbers on it represents an inch. Which of these would you measure in inches?:

STANDARD SYSTEM - FEET


Now look at that ruler again does anyone know what unit of measurement that one of these rulers is equal to?

= _____________________

STANDARD SYSTEM - FEET


What would we measure in feet?

A pencil

City roads or distances between places

FEET & INCHES


Count the number of inches on your foot ruler.

1 foot = ___ inches

FEET & INCHES


Count the number of inches on your foot ruler.

1 foot = 12 inches

Did you know?! -- The lines halfway between each number on a ruler are half-inches! So the bigger line in between 10 & 11 is ____ in.

STANDARD SYSTEM - YARDS


Want to find a quicker way to measure something than lining up a few 12-in. rulers?

Thats when you can measure in yards! Where have you heard of something measured in yards?

STANDARD SYSTEM - YARDS


Of course in football! Every small marking on the field is 1 yard OR 3 feet, because

1 yard = 3 feet = 36 inches

Ways to remember our units


1 inch = About from the top of Your thumb to the knuckle 1 foot = About an egg carton
1 in.

1 yd.

1 yard = About the width of A normal doorway

ALL EQUAL!

What about long distance?!


What if you want to measure from your house to a friends house?

What unit would you use?

STANDARD SYSTEM - MILES


A mile is a long way if you think about it - one mile = 1,760 yd / 5,280 ft! That would take:

1,760 yardsticks 5,280 rulers


and dont even think about measuring it with your thumbs! 1 mile = 63,360 inches!!!

(To the tune of Shell Be Coming Round the Mountain)


Well be measurin with feet, inches, and yards (Yee haw!) Well be measurin with feet, inches, and yards (Yee haw!) If 12 inches is a foot And 3 feet is a yard Then weve got 36 inches in a yard! (One more time!)
(Click for the tune!)

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