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Mexican Distance Measurement Adventures

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Mexican Distance Measurement Adventures

Choose suitable units, show your working where asked, and include units with your answers.

Choosing and converting units

Think about the size of the object or distance before choosing a unit.

1.Which unit would be most suitable for measuring the height of a large pyramid in Mexico?

centimetres (cm)
metres (m)
kilometres (km)

2.A coach trip between two Mexican cities is 1,800 kilometres. How many metres is that?

18,000 m
180,000 m
1,800,000 m

3.A woven belt is 95 cm long and a market sash is 140 cm long. How much longer is the sash?

4.Select every item that would usually be measured in centimetres.

The width of a tortilla
The distance between two cities
The length of a small coin
The length of a long highway

Distances on a journey

Use 1 kilometre = 1,000 metres and 1 metre = 100 centimetres.

5.Sofia walks 420 metres from her home to a market, then 360 metres from the market to a plaza. What is the total distance she walks?

6.A festival procession follows a route that is 3 kilometres long. It has already travelled 1,250 metres. How many metres are left?

7.Convert 4 metres into centimetres.

8.Convert 5,000 metres into kilometres.

9.Convert 620 centimetres into metres and centimetres.

10.Why are centimetres, metres, and kilometres useful for different measurements? Give one example of something you could measure with each unit.

Plan a route

Create a simple route map and practise using distance words.

11.Draw a simple map of a journey in Mexico or Aotearoa New Zealand. Mark three distances using cm, m, and km, and include at least one distance word: the Spanish word “distancia” or the te reo Māori word “tawhiti”.

12.Write one new fact you learned about measuring distance.