The perimeter of a football pitch:
Trundle wheel - metres.
The height of the shed:
Tape measure - metres or centimetres.
The width of your thumb nail:
Ruler - millimetres
We had lots of fun measuring a range of lengths, heights and widths. We made sure that we read the scales accurately.
Measuring in metres
Measuring in centimetres
Converting from millimetres to centimetres
We converted metres to centimetres and then to millimetres.
We also converted kilometres to miles.
