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Measuring units worksheets

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The worksheet generator

This worksheet generator makes worksheets for conversion of various measuring units. You can choose to include inches, feet, yards, miles, ounces, cups, pints, quarts, gallons, ounces, pounds, millimeters, centimeters, meters, kilometers, grams, kilograms, liters, and milliliters. You can also make worksheets for the metric system: units with the prefixes milli, centi, deci, deka, hecto, and kilo.

The options are numerous: you can choose the number of problems, font size, space below the problems, the decimal separator (comma or point), the thousands separator, the number of decimal digits, difficulty level, and more.

After you have generated a worksheet, you can print it from your browser, or SAVE it from the browser's "file" menu under File -> Save As. If you save it, you can then edit it using Word or other word processing program. Also, to get another worksheet with different problems but using the same options, just refresh the page from your browser window (press F5).

All worksheets come with an answer key. You can print the worksheet directly from your browser, or save it on disk using the "Save as" command of your browser.

If the problems on the worksheet do not fit the page, choose a smaller font, less cellpadding, fewer columns of problems, or print in landscape.

Use these quick links to generate worksheets for some common tasks. With the actual generator, you can customize them more.

Customary measuring units worksheets

Inches, feet, and yards - easy
Inches, feet, and yards - harder
Inches, feet, and yards - a tad harder yet

Feet, yards, and miles - easy
Feet, yards, and miles - medium
Feet, yards, and miles - using decimals (use a calculator)

Ounces, pounds, and tons - easy
Ounces, pounds, and tons - medium
Ounces, pounds, and tons - harder
Ounces, pounds, and tons - using decimals (use a calculator)

Ounces, cups, quarts, and gallons - easy
Ounces, cups, quarts, and gallons - medium
Ounces, cups, quarts, and gallons - harder
Ounces, quarts, and gallons - medium
Ounces, quarts, and gallons - harder

All common units in the customary system - easy
All common units in the customary system - medium
All common units in the customary system - hard
All common units in the customary system - with decimals (use a calculator)

Metric units worksheets

Metric system worksheets
milli-, centi-, deci-, deka-, hecto-, kilo-, and the basic unit

Measuring Units Worksheets  

Columns:   Rows: (These determine the number of problems) Decimals separator: . ,   Thousands/millions separator: , . (space) (none)

Level of difficulty: 1  (e.g. 2 ft = ____ in or 5 L = _____ mL) 2  (e.g. 25 in = _____ ft _____ in) 3  (e.g. 218 in = _____ ft _____ in) 4  (always using decimals, e.g. 5.77 ft = ______ in or 9.32 m = _____ cm) The levels of difficulty work a little differently depending on whether you choose individual units or conversions between all metric units. Please check what their effect are by making a worksheet, and then come back to this page by using the 'back' button on your browser.

Decimal digits: Maximum number of decimals used for the smaller unit: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Maximum number of decimals used for the larger unit: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Round answers to 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 digits Again, the decimal digits work a little differently depending on the level of difficulty and type of conversions chosen. Some difficulty levels for certain type of conversions will not accept decimal digits at all. Please check what their effect are by making a worksheet, and then come back to this page by using the 'back' button on your browser.

Conversions between individual units - check any number of these: inches / feet feet / yards feet / miles yards / miles ounces / pounds pounds / tons ounces / cups cups / pints cups / quarts pints / quarts ounces / quarts quarts / gallons ounces / quarts / gallons mm / cm cm / m m / km g / kg ml / L Conversions in the metric system - check any number of these: km, hm, dam, m, dm, cm, mm kg, hg, dag, g, dg, cg, mg kl, hl, dal, L, dl, cl, ml

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Math Mammoth Measuring 1 A self-teaching worktext for 1st - 3rd grade that covers measuring length, weight, volume, and temperature, in both customary and measuring units. The book includes lots of hands-on projects. Available as an affordable download ($4.50), and also as a printed copy. => Learn more and see the free samples! See more topical Math Mammoth books

Math Mammoth Measuring 2 A self-teaching worktext for 4th - 6th grade that covers time, temperature, length, weight, and volume, in both customary and measuring units, concentrating on conversions between units. Available as an affordable download ($4.00), and also as a printed copy. Learn more and see the free samples! See more topical Math Mammoth books