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Lesson: Nonstandard Units of Length

In this lesson, we will learn how to count unit squares to measure the length or height of objects.

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Worksheet • 14 Questions • 2 Videos

Q1:

What is the length of the blue stripe?

Q2:

What is the length of the blue stripe?

Q3:

How long is the yellow stripe?

Q4:

Sherif measured the length of two toys with unit squares.

Pick the words that are missing.

  • Alonger than
  • Bthe same length as
  • Cshorter than

What number is missing?

Pick the words that are missing.

  • Ashorter than
  • Blonger than
  • Cthe same length as

Q5:

A piece of paper is to be divided into a typographic grid, as seen in the given figure. A font has a vertical height of 5 3 6 of an inch. Each line of text must be separated by a gap of 1 3 6 of an inch, including above the first row and below the last. What would the vertical height of each grid row be if it were to contain exactly 10 lines of text? Give your answer to two decimal places.

Q6:

The length of the red stripe is 3 units. The length of the blue stripe is unit(s).

Q7:

What colour is the shortest stripe?

  • Agrey
  • Bred
  • Cgreen
  • Dyellow
  • Eblue

Q8:

Madison is measuring her toys with unit squares.

Pick the toy that is 8 units long.

  • A
  • B

Q9:

The length of the green stripe is less than the length of the stripe.

  • Agray
  • Bblue
  • Cred
  • Dyellow

Q10:

Find the length and the width of the grey shape.

  • A5 length units, 7 length units
  • B6 length units, 4 length units
  • C3 length units, 5 length units

Q11:

Dalia is measuring items with square units.