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Converting Measurements

The document provides information about converting between different units of measurement for length, mass, volume, and time. It includes conversion factors and examples for converting between kilometers and meters, kilograms and grams, milliliters and liters, months and years, and also covers imperial units of inches, pounds, pints and yards. Step-by-step workings are shown for calculations such as converting between kg and g, km and m, ml and l, as well as challenges for converting between other units.

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Converting Measurements

The document provides information about converting between different units of measurement for length, mass, volume, and time. It includes conversion factors and examples for converting between kilometers and meters, kilograms and grams, milliliters and liters, months and years, and also covers imperial units of inches, pounds, pints and yards. Step-by-step workings are shown for calculations such as converting between kg and g, km and m, ml and l, as well as challenges for converting between other units.

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Converting measurements

How could you group these measurements and pictures?

km
ml
g
l m
kg
cm mm
What do you know about these measurements?
Write down anything you know.
How could you group these measurements?

Length Mass Volume


mm g ml
cm kg l
m
km
Kilometers & Kilograms

What does
the word kilo
mean? A thousand

Knowing this complete these sentences:


1000m
1 km = _____
1000g
1 kg = _____
1 km = 1000 m
Converting between 1 kg = 1000 g
km and m
How do you convert from
km to m?
Use what you already know … 1km = 1000m

x 1000

1 km = 1000m
÷ 1000

How do you convert from


m to km?
1 km = 1000 m
Converting between 1 kg = 1000 g
kg and g
Can you apply this to kg and g?
x 1000 How do you convert from kg to g?

km m How do you convert from g to kg?

÷ 1000 x 1000

kg g
÷ 1000
Converting kg and g
What is 5.3 kilograms in grams? 5300g
You could use a place value grid to help you.

Th H T U tenths hundredths

9 1 3 50 3 To times by 1000
we need to move
5 3 0 09 1 3 each digit 3
places to the left.

What is 9130 grams in kilograms? 9.13kg


Converting km and m
Can you fill in the missing values on the double number
line?
1/10 3 4/5
½ km
km km
0.5
? 1 2? 2.5 3.2 4?
km
m
500 1000 2000 ? 3200
? 4000
2500
Challenge:
Where would ½ km go on the number line?
What about 1/10 km?
What about 3 4/5km?
Converting mm, cm, m and km
10 mm
1 cm = _____
100 cm
1 m = _____ Using this, can you fill in the
rules on the diagram?
1 km = _____
1000 m

x 10 x 100 x 1000

mm ÷10 cm ÷100 m ÷1000


km
How about the other way?
Converting ml and l
What do you think ‘milli’ in
millilitre means?
It is a prefix
which means 1/1000
So how many millilitres do you
think are in a litre?
1000 ml
litre = _____ x 1000

l ml
÷ 1000
x 1000
Converting ml and l
l ml
Try these: ÷ 1000

2000 ml = ____ l And these!

400 ml = ____ l 1 l = ____ ml

32401 ml = ____ l 2.3 l = ____ ml

0.52 l = ____ ml
Challenge:
¾ l = ____ ml
Hint:
What is ¾ as a decimal?
Converting units of time
ow many months are in a year?
How many seconds
are in a minute?
How about a day?

How many
weeks are in
How many a year?
hours are How many minutes in
in a day? an hour?
How about a day?
Converting units of time
1 year = 12 months
3 years = ____ months 1 year = 52 weeks
____ years = 60 months 1 month = 28-31 days
4 weeks = ____ days 1 day = 24 hours
1 week = 7 days
56 days = ____ weeks
1 hour = 60 minutes
1 minute = 60 seconds
Challenge:
2.5 years = ____ months
1.2 days = ____ hours
Imperial units – inches, pounds, pints &
yards

litre kilogram cm metre

inch
pounds Can you match the imperial unit to the
pint (lb) correct metric unit?

yard
Imperial units – inches, pounds, pints &
yards

1 inch ≈ 2.5 cm
This means that it is not What do you
equal to but nearly equal notice?
to (approximate). Is there anything
different?
Imperial units – inches, pounds, pints &
yards
1 inch ≈ 2.5 cm
A centimeter at a pinch
1 cm ≈ 0.4 inches
Is roughly 2 point 5 per
inch
1 kg ≈ 2.2 pounds
A kilo of goo, 1 lb ≈ 0.45kg
Is 2 point 2
1 l ≈ 1.75 pints
A litre of water’s 1 pint ≈ 0.57 l
A pint and 3 quarters.

A yard at a run 1 yard ≈ 0.91m


1 metre ≈ 1.09 yards
Is 0.91
Converting imperial units
What is 3 pints in l?

1.71 l
3 pints = ____
Hint:
What would the number
sentence be? 3 x 0.57

Challenge:
What is 2.4 pints in litres? 1.368 l
Converting imperial units
What is 4 inches in cm?

10 cm
4 inches = ____
Hint:
What would the number
sentence be? 4 x 2.5

Challenge:
What is 19.6 inches in m? 0.49 m

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