LENGTH

VOCABULARY
 Length
 Measuring Unit
 Standard unit
 Millimeter
 Centimeter
 Meter
 Kilometer
 Conversion
Refer Dictionary
INTRODUCTION
Students will be asked to measure the
length of their desks using their hand
spans and then share their findings
Continue..
Findings will be like:
STUDEN LENGTH(in hand
T spans)
1 8 hand spans
2 6 hand spans
3 9 hand spans

Measuring will give different results as length

of hand span of each student is different.
SO THIS METHOD OF MEASUREMENT IS
NOT CORRECT.
Watch video for more clarification
Which of the following objects can
be measured in length?
We can measure how long things are, or how
tall, or how far apart they are. Those are all
examples of length measurements.
Kilometers
(km)

Most common Millimeters (mm)

Meters (m) measuments

Centimeters
(cm)
Smallest unit Millimeter(
of length mm)
Standard
unit of
length

Meter (m)
Units of Length from small to large

mm & cm

km
Meters can be used to measure the
length of a house, or the size of a
playground.

1 m = 100 cm
•When we need to get from one place to another, we
measure the distance using kilometers.
•The distance from one city to another or how far a
plane travels can be measured using kilometers.

1 km = 1000 m
Converting Bigger Unit Into
Smaller Unit
To change m into cm, we multiply by 100.

× 100

cm
To change km into m, we multiply by 1000

km

× 1000

m
Converting Smaller Unit into
Bigger Unit
To change cm into m, we divide by 100.

cm

÷100
m
 To change m into km, we divide by 1000

÷1000

km
Sonu travels 20 m 78 cm and Meenu travels 15
m 70 cm.They together travels _____???

To solve it:
m cm
1

20 78
+15 70 148cm= 1m 48 cm
___________
36 48
Ans: 36m 48cm
I have a 8m 56cm long
ribbon. I cut 5m 75cm
long ribbon from it. But
I don’t know how much
ribbon is left with me
now?
 m cm
We cant
8 56 subtract 75 from
-5 75 56. so lets
borrow 1m.
_____________

m cm
7 156
-5 75
__________
2 81
Ans: 2m 81cm
An assignment will be given for
more practice.