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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)Hana stops by the kindergarten and then heads to the hospital. The distance from home to the kindergarten is 600m, and the distance from the kindergarten to the hospital is 550m. What is the total distance Hana walked, in how many km and how many m? Answer □ □
Answer: 1km, 150m
(2)The distance from Ayla's home to the supermarket is 1km700m, and the distance to the park on the way is 500m. What is the distance from the park to the supermarket, in how many km and how many m? Answer □ □
Answer: 1km, 200m
(3)Shawn is heading from home to the hospital by bicycle to accompany his mother. The distance from home to the hospital is 8km. So far he has traveled 6km. How much farther is it to the hospital? how many km Answer □
Answer: 2km
(4)Henry is walking from the library to the station. The distance from the library to the station is 600m. So far, he has walked 400m. How many m farther is it to the station? 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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