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WALT: �choose appropriate units and devices for measurement

millimetres

kilometres

seconds

grams

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Common Units - length, mass (weight) and capacity

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Thousand

Hundred

Ten

One

(Base Unit)

tenth

hundredth

thousandth

Prefixes

kilo

hecto

deca

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deci

centi

milli

Length

kilometre

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metre

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centimetre

millimetre

Mass

kilogram

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gram

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Capacity

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litre

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millilitre

Complete this chart to show the different measurement units.

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Choosing Units of Measure 1

Which of the units in the box would you use to measure these items/objects?

  1. the length of a soccer field
  2. mass of a car
  3. volume of a coffee mug
  4. mass of a rugby ball
  5. wingspan of a butterfly
  6. volume of a bottle of coke
  7. distance from Pt England School to Mission Bay
  8. mass of a packet of sausages
  9. mass of a person
  10. height of your classroom
  11. thickness of a mobile phone

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Unit of measure

Description

m

metre

kg

kilogram

L

litre

km

kilometre

g

gram

cm

cm

ml

millilitre

t

tonne

mm

millimetre

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Choosing Units of Measure 2

Which of the units on the list would you use to measure these?

  • bake a cake
  • fly from Auckland to Wellington
  • count to ten
  • play six songs from a playlist
  • eat an icecream
  • heal a broken bone
  • cycle from Pt England School to New Plymouth
  • blink ten times
  • check your emails
  • grow a large tree

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Unit of measure

days

weeks

hours

minutes

seconds

years