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Tuesday 11th January. Maths. Conversion

The document provides examples and questions to practice converting between metric units of measurement including kilometers, meters, grams, liters and milliliters. Students are asked to complete conversions, comparisons, and word problems involving weights and volumes in different metric units.

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Tuesday 11th January. Maths. Conversion

The document provides examples and questions to practice converting between metric units of measurement including kilometers, meters, grams, liters and milliliters. Students are asked to complete conversions, comparisons, and word problems involving weights and volumes in different metric units.

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Amir Elmenawy
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3

Complete the bar models.


Convert metric measures
a)
1 km 1 km 1 km 1 km

1,000 m 1,000 m 1,000 m 1,000 m

1 How many centimetre cubes can you fit along a metre stick?
There are 4000 m in 4 km.

b)
1
1 kg 1 kg 1 kg 1 kg 1 kg 1 kg kg
2
100
1,000 g 1,000 g 1,000 g

What does this tell you?


1
There are g in 6  kg.
6500 2

2 Complete the sentences.


4 Complete the conversions.
a) There are 1000 grams in 1 kilogram.
a) 2 kg = 2000 g b) 1 l = 1000 ml
There are 1000 kilograms in one tonne.
5 kg = 5000 g 5l= 5000 ml

10000
b) There are 1000 millilitres in 1 litre. 10 kg = g 11 l = 11000 ml

12kg = 12000 g
c) There are 10 millimetres in 1 centimetre

There are 100 centimetres in 1 metre.


5 A bag of dog food weighs 2.5 kg.
There are metres in 1 kilometre.
1000 Write this weight in grams.

© White Rose Maths 2019


6 What measurements are the arrows pointing to? 9 Dora and Amir are trying to convert 1.05 metres into millimetres.
Label them on the number line.

You can multiply 1.05 by 100 to


mm 0 1 5 13
convert it into centimetres, then
multiply the product by 10 to convert
it into millimetres.
cm 0 1 2
Dora
1mm 5 mm 1cm 1.3cm 2 cm Amir
You can just multiply
1.05 by 1,000!
7 Complete the conversions.
both of them because 100x10 is 1000 and 100 i the same.
a) 10 mm = 1 cm mm = 1.1 cm Who do you agree with? ___________________
Explain your thinking.
11 mm = 1.1 cm mm = 10.1 cm

10 What is the mass of one of the boxes?


2 kg
110 mm = 11 cm 1 kg
Give your answer in grams.

b) 2.1 km = 2100 m 2.01 km = 2010 m

2.001 km = 2001 m 2.011 km = 2011 m


250g

11 There are 1,000 kg in one tonne.


8 Write > , < or = to complete the statements.
a) How many grams are there in one tonne?
=
a) 100 m < 1 km b) 5.1 l 5,100 ml
1,000,000g

10 m > 10 cm 607 l > 0.607 ml b) A car weighs 1.3 tonnes.


Write the weight of the car in grams.

10.1 mm < 101 cm 0.05 l < 5 ml


1,300,000g

© White Rose Maths 2019

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