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Metric Units and Decimals

Help organise a New Zealand farmers’ market stall. Convert metric measurements and use decimals carefully. Show your working where you can.

Pack and label

The stall is packing produce and drink. Remember: 1 m = 100 cm and 1 L = 1,000 mL.

1.A ribbon for the stall sign is 2.5 m long. How many centimetres is that?
2.A bottle holds 750 mL of berry drink. Write this amount in litres as a decimal.
3.Choose the matching conversion: 0.6 kg is the same as …
  • 6 g
  • 60 g
  • 600 g
  • 6,000 g

Decimal detectives

Use place value and equivalent fractions to solve each market puzzle.

4.A bag contains 1 kg of apples. A customer buys 0.25 kg. What fraction of a kilogram is 0.25 kg?
  • One half
  • One quarter
  • Three quarters
  • One tenth
5.Put these lengths in order from shortest to longest: 0.8 m, 75 cm, 0.65 m. Convert to the same unit first.
0.60.650.70.750.80.850.9
6.True or false? 0.5 L is the same amount as 500 mL. Explain using a conversion fact.

The stall’s measuring challenge

A customer orders 1.35 m of paper bunting. The stall has a 1 m strip and a 50 cm strip. Work out what to use and how much will be left over.

7.Write 1.35 m in centimetres.
8.If the stall joins the whole 1 m strip and the 50 cm strip, how many centimetres of bunting does it have altogether?
9.After cutting 1.35 m from the joined strips, how much bunting remains? Give your answer in centimetres and metres.
10.Finish the market label: milli- means one of a unit, and centi- means one of a unit.
11.A jar holds 2 L of juice. The stall pours out 0.6 L. How many litres are left? Show a subtraction or explain your thinking.

2 printable pages

  • Metric Units and Decimals, page 1 of 2: Pack and label, Decimal detectives

    Page 1

  • Metric Units and Decimals, page 2 of 2: The stall’s measuring challenge

    Page 2

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