Metric System Meters Math
A liter is the measurement of volume in the metric system.
Metric system meters math. The metric system provides units of measurement for distance volume mass time and temperature. The metric system is a system of measurement that uses the meter liter and gram as base units of length distance capacity volume and weight mass respectively. 3 km 3 1 000 3 000 m. The following list shows five important basic units in the metric system.
1 meter 100 centimeters if it was 600 centimeters instead of 660 you could easily get the answer. To measure smaller or larger quantities we use units derived from the metric units. It builds these units using a basic unit and a set of prefixes. And to get a sense of how long a meter is the average human being is between 1 5 and 2 meters tall.
100 100 100 100 100 100 600 so you will need six of the 100 centimeters and six 100 centimeters is 6 meters. Volume is length by length by length so the basic unit of volume is a cube that is 1 meter on each side in other words one cubic meter. Below you will find a wide range of our printable worksheets in chapter metric measurement of section measurement these worksheets are appropriate for third grade math we have crafted many worksheets covering various aspects of this topic metric units of length capacity and mass temperature in degree celsius conversion tables and many more we hope you find them very useful and interesting. Convert 3 km to m.
This is a fraction of 100 centimeters or 60 100 0 6 and it is less than 1 meter. In fact if you re 2 meters tall or above 2 meters tall you might want to consider basketball. So we multiply by 10 3 1000. The following table shows ten metric prefixes with the three most commonly used in bold.
The base unit for distance in the metric system is the meter. The unit is meters meters meters which is written m 3. So 1 5 meters would be a not so tall person but 2 meters would be quite tall.