Metric Meter Math

Meters can be used to measure the length of a house or the size of a playground.

Metric meter math. Liter is abbreviated l some people use lowercase l but that looks too much like 1. And because a centimeter is 10 millimeters. The basic metric unit of distance is the meter m. The basic metric unit of fluid volume also called capacity is the liter l.

As 1 km 1000 m. Units of fluid volume. 1 meter 1000 millimeters. 1 meter 1 000 millimeters.

1 kilometer 1 000 meters. As we move down the units the next unit is one tenth as large. To convert a bigger unit to the smaller unit we move left to write we multiple by 10. 10 meters 1 dekameter dam 10 dekameters 1 hectometer hm 100 meters.

1 m 3 1 000 liters. The back of this kitchen chair is 1 meter. 10 centimeters 1 decimeter dm 100 millimeters. Another common unit is the milliliter ml.

Math science weights measures tables for metric measuring. Let us look at some examples of converting from one unit to another. One hundred milliliters which is 1 10 liter 100 1000 1 10 are larger than one centiliter 1 100th liter. 10 decimeters 1 meter m 1 000 millimeters.

Convert 5 km to m. A kilometer is equal to 1000 meters. 1 meter 100 centimeters. The metric system has prefix modifiers that are multiples of 10.

Moving right to left from smaller unit to bigger we divide by 10. 1 meter 100 centimeters. A meter is equal to 100 centimeters. Here s how we can multiply or divide for making metric conversions.

The length of this guitar is about 1 meter. A cube that is 1 meter on each side is also equal to 1 000 liters. As we move upward each unit is 10 times as large.