Video Transcript
Which of these is the best estimate
for the length of a soccer field? Is it 100 centimeters, 10
centimeters, 10 meters, or 100 meters?
If we wanted to measure the length
of a soccer field, would we measure using centimeters or meters? The width of an index finger is
about one centimeter. Does a soccer field measure 100
index fingers? No, it doesn’t. And the length of a soccer field is
not 10 centimeters either. Soccer field measures much more
than 10 index fingers.
Would we use meters to measure a
soccer field? We know a baseball bat is about a
meter in length. If we were to lay out 10 baseball
bats in a row, that would be about 10 meters. A soccer field would measure more
than 10 meters in length. How about 100 meters? This is the largest unit of
measurement we have in our possible answers. So the best estimate for the length
of a soccer field is 100 meters. In actual fact, most soccer fields
do measure 100 meters in length. The best estimate is 100
meters.
