Equivalent lengths – m and cm

1 Thereare100centimetres(cm)in1metre(m).

Usethebarmodelstocompletethesentences.

a) 1m 1m 1m

Thereare cmin3m.

b) 1m 1m 1m 1m 1m 1m

Thereare cmin6m.

c)

100cm 100cm 100cm 100cm 100cm

Thereare500cmin m.

2 Completethetabletoshowequivalentlengthsandcontinue

thepattern.

cm mandcm

310cm 3mand10cm

320cm mandcm

330cm mandcm

cm 3mand40cm

cm 3mand50cm

cm mandcm

cm mandcm

3 Writethemissingmeasurements.

0m 1m 2m

cm

cm

mcm

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1m

100cm

c) 508cm= mand cm

d) 2mand15cm= cm

e) 8mand3cm= cm

7 HereisHuan’ssunflower.

Dani’ssunfloweris2mand30cm.

Tom’ssunflowerisexactlyhalfwaybetweenHuan’s

andDani’s.

HowtallisTom’ssunflower?

Writeyouranswerinmetresandcentimetres.

mand cm

4 Drawanarrowtoshowthepositionofeachmeasurement.

0m 1m 2m

A B C D

20cm 0m75cm 130cm 1m65cm

5 Completethebarmodels.

a)160cm

m cm

c)cm

4m 10cm

b)268cm

m cm

d)cm

2m 5cm

6 Completethesentences.

a) 240cm= mand cm

b) 319cm= mand cm

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2m

190cm