Unit 2 – Money and measures
Length and height
What might you measure in centimetres? What might you measure in metres? Try out your ideas. Explain your choices.
Shorter lengths are measured in centimetres. Centimetres are also used to measure longer lengths more accurately, e.g. 2 metres and 45 centimetres. Metres are used to measure longer lengths, heights or distances. 1 Letisha measures the length of objects that are in her pencil case. She lines up the ‘0 cm’ mark with one end of the object and reads the measurement at the other end. The paper clip is 3 cm long.
The pen is 12 cm long.
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