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Length (km and Tape Measure) Review

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What this worksheet covers

Grade: Grade 3 (Elementary School)
Topic: Length (km and Tape Measure)

Reading the scale on a tape measure comes first, and 1 km is grasped as a block of 1000 m. Conversions from km to m and from m to km and m, and down as far as m to mm, are covered, along with adding and subtracting lengths and reading straight-line distance and route distance off a map.

Misreading 1 km = 1000 m as 100 m turns 2 km 300 m into 230 m rather than 2300 m, and counting the zeros settles it. On the distance-versus-route question, children take the straight-line length on a U-Shaped Map and add that up as though it were the route.

The sense of expressing length in cm and mm stays the same here. What changes is the addition of a new unit, km. The idea of rewriting one unit as another, built up in Length (cm, mm, m) in grade 2, is later replaced by a form that uses decimals, once Decimal Units (Capacity and Length) is studied.

Addition · Word Problems1 question
Subtraction · Word Problems1 question
Distance and Route · km (Word Problems)1 question
Distance and Route · m (Word Problems)1 question

Questions & answers

Problems and answers on this worksheet

These are the problems in “Length (km and Tape Measure)”, shown with their answers.

(1)Yves borrows a book at the library and then heads to the community center. The distance from home to the library is 400m, and the distance from the library to the community center is 900m. What is the total distance Yves walked, in how many km and how many m? Answer □ □
Answer: 1km, 300m
(2)Oliver is walking toward a mountain campsite 2km500m away from home. So far he has walked 1km200m. How much farther is it to the campsite, in how many km and how many m? Answer □ □
Answer: 1km, 300m
(3)On a town exploration, Cordelia returns through the park to the school. The distance from the station to the park is 4km. The distance from the park to the school is 3km. What is the distance from the station through the park to the school in how many km? Answer □
Answer: 7km
(4)Liam is walking from home to the park. The distance from home to the park is 700m. So far, he has walked 500m. How many m farther is it to the park? Answer □
Answer: 200m

What to do next

Measuring Length with a Tape MeasureMeasuring Length with a Tape Measure Reading (cm)

Next unit: Division with Remainders

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