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Imperial and Metric Lengths WORKSHEET

Suitable for Year groups: Year 5
Learning objective: Understand and use approximate equivalences between metric units and common imperial.

Imperial and Metric Lengths WORKSHEET DESCRIPTION

This worksheet will see pupils converting between miles and kilometres and inches and centimetres.

In section students will use a given scale to approximate between miles and km and in section b they will use calculators and the scale 1 inch = 2.54 cm to convert between the two.

All worksheets are created by the team of experienced teachers at Cazoom Maths.

Frequently Asked Questions

Your child will be converting between two key pairs of measurement units: miles to kilometres for longer distances, and inches to centimetres for shorter lengths. This builds their understanding of how imperial units (traditionally used in Britain) relate to metric units (used internationally), which is an important skill for Year 5 pupils.