The mass of a bag of sugar, commonly 1 kg (kilogram). Work out what metric unit could be used to estimate the height of a leisure centre. Using the fact that the height of a standard door is 2 ...

In this educational film, a father explains to his son Tommy the importance of weights and measures in everyday life. As they prepare to set up a train set, the father illustrates how measurements are ...

The sunflower is 214 cm tall. Calculate the height of the sunflower in metres and millimetres. There are 100 centimetres in a metre. Metres are larger than centimetres so the number of centimetres ...

They were not hella or bronto. Like other metric units, the new prefixes represent powers of 10 — just as 1,000 grams of mass, or 10 x 10 x 10, or 10 3, is a kilogram, and 1/1000 of a meter in ...