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Length (cm, mm, m) Review

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What this worksheet covers

Grade: Grade 2 (Elementary School)
Topic: Length (cm, mm, m)

Everything rests on two relationships: one tenth of 1 cm is 1 mm, and 100 cm is 1 m. Starting from Measuring with a Ruler, children restate lengths between cm and mm and between m and cm, then add and subtract within one unit and across units, including the cases that carry and borrow.

Writing 8 cm 5 mm as 805 mm rather than 85 mm stands out, since the cm part is not multiplied by 10 during the conversion. In subtraction that needs borrowing, 1 cm is never exchanged for 10 mm, so the mm parts are subtracted smaller from larger and the mm in the answer comes out too big.

From a stage that only compared the lengths of objects, this unit moves on to expressing length as a number. The sense of lining up ends to compare, built in Comparing Length, becomes the foundation for measuring with units such as cm and mm, and the units keep growing into Length (km and Tape Measure) in grade 3, where km enters the picture.

Subtraction (Same Units) · cm (Word Problems)1 question
Addition (With Carrying) · cm, mm (Word Problems)1 question
Addition (With Carrying) · m, cm (Word Problems)1 question
Subtraction (Same Units) · m (Word Problems)1 question
Subtraction (With Borrowing) · cm, mm (Word Problems)1 question
Subtraction (With Borrowing) · m, cm (Word Problems)1 question

Questions & answers

Problems and answers on this worksheet

These are the problems in “Length (cm, mm, m)”, shown with their answers.

(1)At the park, Henry picked up 13cm of red pole. If he cuts 6cm of it, how many cm will be left? Answer □
Answer: 7cm
(2)On Sports Day, there is rope that is 12cm7mm long and 4cm8mm long. Altogether, how long is it in how many cm and how many mm? Answer □ □
Answer: 17cm, 5mm
(3)Hana is 1m30cm tall. If she stands on top of a chair that is 90cm, how tall will she be — how many m and how many cm? Answer □ □
Answer: 2m, 20cm
(4)At the park, Grace brought 11m of red rope. After cutting off 4m, how many m are left? Answer □
Answer: 7m
(5)Ethan bought 17cm5mm of white ribbon for a school festival decoration. If he cuts off 10cm8mm, how many cm and how many mm are left? Answer □ □
Answer: 6cm, 7mm
(6)In the art room, there was 7m30cm of tape. If 3m60cm is cut off, how much will be left, in how many m and how many cm? Answer □ □
Answer: 3m, 70cm

What to do next

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