After viewing the metric videos included in this post, please take this quiz to check your progress over your knowledge learned so far:
http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=metrics-quiz
If you need additional help, please view this Metric Tutorial.
Colorado Benchmark: 5.1a, 5.1b
Determine the appropriate unit of measure, metric and US customary, when estimating distance, capacity and weight.
Resources:
Notes, definitions and examples regarding The Metric Sytem and Measurement
Videos:
Converting units of length: U06_L1_T1_we3 Converting units of length
Conversion between metric units: U06_L2_T1_we2 Conversion between metric units
U.S. Customary and Metric units: U06_L2_T1_we1 U.S. Customary and Metric units
Converting within the metric system: U06_L2_T2_we1 Converting within the metric system
Converting pounds to ounces: U06_L1_T2_we1 Converting pounds to ounces
I’m a metric advocate who resides in Denver. I blog about actual examples of metric problems in our economy that might be of interest to you as a teacher. My blog is http://www.themetricmaven.com It is published on the 10th of each month and also has bulldog editions on the 20th and 30th.
Look at Naughtin’s Laws on the site and you will realize that teaching the near unity metric prefixes is a waste of time. They should be completely supplementary.
Thanks for your time,
The Metric Maven
Thank you for your response. I’ll look into Naughtin’s Laws next time I teach the metric system!
~Mae Guerra