Curriculum placement
Grade 5. This describes the skill, not a learner estimate.
Converting within one measurement system
Convert measurements within one system in multistep problems
Problem types
- Rename with larger units
- Bring lengths to one unit
- One unit around the border
- Rename customary units as larger units
- Mixed customary units
- Add meters and write kilometers and meters
- Estimate a measure with a decimal conversion factor
Builds on
Leads to
- Unit rates with fractions · See it applied
A rate such as miles per hour is converted by changing one unit at a time, and the unit rate may be a fraction.
- Scale drawings of lengths and areas · See it applied
A scale drawing with a scale in different units needs a unit conversion before lengths compare.
- Choosing units and a sensible precision · Extend the idea
Converting single metric units extends to compound units such as kilometers per hour, using conversion factors.
Related skills
- Circumference and area of a circle · Shared foundations
- Fluent decimal arithmetic · Shared foundations
- Profit, cost, and taxes · Shared foundations
- Mean and median · Shared foundations
- Percent increase and decrease · Shared foundations
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