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This document is a Grade 3 measurement worksheet focusing on units of length such as inches, feet, yards, and miles. It includes various exercises like filling in blanks, choosing the right answers, conversions, and word problems related to measurement. The worksheet aims to help students understand and apply measurement concepts in practical scenarios.

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Measurement Word Problems

This document is a Grade 3 measurement worksheet focusing on units of length such as inches, feet, yards, and miles. It includes various exercises like filling in blanks, choosing the right answers, conversions, and word problems related to measurement. The worksheet aims to help students understand and apply measurement concepts in practical scenarios.

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MEASUREMENT

Units of length: inches, feet, yards & miles


Grade 3 Measurement Worksheet

Circle the proper units.


Distance between two Distance of a marathon Length of
continents race a baby’s feet

inches / yard / miles feet / yards / miles inches / feet / yards

Length of a dolphin Width of a towel Length of a sailboat

inches / feet / yards inches / yards / miles inches / yards / miles

Size of a frying pan Length of a Height of a door


golf course

inches / feet / yards inches / yards / miles inches / feet / miles

We measure short lengths (like pencils) in inches and longer lengths in feet or yards.
We measure very long distances in miles.
Draw and Measure Lines An Amazing Fact a
Day

Amazing Fact
A pencil has the potential to draw a line 38 miles long.

Challenge
Using a ruler and a pencil, draw lines the lengths
stated in the boxes below.

2cm

5cm

10cm

4cm

6.5cm

3.5cm

9.5cm
1. Fill in the blanks:

(i) 1 km = _________ m

(ii) 1 m = _________ cm

(iii) 1 dm = _________ cm

(iv) 1 m = _________ dm

(v) 1 km = _________ cm

2. Choose the right answer:

(i) Rachel measured a pencil in …………… (cm / m)

(ii) Distance between city A and city B is measured in …………… (m / km)

(iii) 5 m is equal to …………… cm (500 / 50)


(iv) A tailor uses a …………… to measure the cloth ( ruler, metre tape)

(v) 309 cm is equal to …………… cm (3 m 9 cm / 30 m 9 cm)

3. (i) Convert 18 m into centimeters.

(ii) Change 32 m 47 cm into centimeters.

(iii) Convert 7 km into meters.

(iv) Convert the following:

(a) 372 cm into meters and centimeters

(b) 2832 cm into meters and centimeters

(v) Convert the following as desired:

(a) 3275 m into kilometers and meters

(b) 5217 m into kilometers and meters

(c) 57 dm into m and cm

4. Put appropriate sign >, < or = in the boxes.

(i) 32 m 76 cm…………… 48 m 90 cm

(ii) 12 m + 22 m …………… 28 m

(iii) 1 m …………… 100 cm

(iv) 78 m 30 cm – 23 m 20 cm …………… 84 m 10 cm – 56 m 10 cm

5. Add the following:

(i) 72 m 50 cm + 15 m 75 cm

(ii) 102 m 25 cm + 375 m 85 cm

(iii) 8 dm 9 cm + 9 dm 8 cm

(iv) 75 km 312 m + 34 km 215 m

(v) 212 km 132 m + 18 km 230 m

(vi) 81 km 570 m + 17 km 915 m

6. Fill in the blanks:

(i) To convert metres into centimetres, we multiply the number of metres by ……………
(ii) 5000 cm = …………… m

(iii) 427 cm = …………… m …………… cm

7. Subtract the following:

(i) 128 km 525 m - 20 km 278 m

(ii) 25 m 38 cm - 18 m 78 cm

(iii) 9 dm 3 cm - 2 dm 9 cm

(iv) 73 km 975 m 87 cm - 23 km 375 m 27 cm

Answer the questions below.

1. Match the pictures with the units of measurement each picture


represents. millilitres litres kilolitres

a.
b. c. d.

2. What is the shortened form of each unit of measurement?


a. millilitres = b. kilolitres = ____ c. litres =

3. What unit of measurement would you use to measure the


amounts of water below.
4. Answer the questions below.

a. Katie bought lemonade for her class party. Did she buy 6 litres or 6
millilitres?

b. Ms Naidoo ordered a cup of coffee from the café. Does the cup hold
240 millilitres or 240 litres?

c. Sipho bought 1 litre of orange juice. He drank 500 millilitre of it. How
much juice is left? _

d. Johan has a fish tank that holds 10 litres of water. If he fills the fish
tank using a 500 millilitre bucket, how many times will Johan have to
fill his bucket?
6. Answer the questions about the water in the jug.

a. What is the most amount of water this jug can hold?

b. How much water is in the jug? ml

c. How much water do I need to pour out for there to be 500 millilitres in
the jug?

d. If I drank 400 millilitres of the water, how much would be left in the
jug?

e. How much more water must I pour into the jug to make it 1 litre?

f. How many millilitres is the same as half a litre?

g. How many millilitres is the same as one and a half litres?


Measurement Word Problems
Question Solve: Answe
r
1. Gerald made a sub that was
8 inches long. Bryce made his
12 inches long. How much
longer is Bryce’s sub?

2. Sharon’s block tower is 20 cm.


Morgan’s is 2 cm less, and Ava’s
is 3 cm’s less than Morgan’s. How
tall is Ava’s tower?

3. On a street, the brown house is


8 meters tall. The white house is 2
meters taller, and the brick house
is 3 meters smaller than the white
house. How tall is the brick
house?

4. Kellie sprinted 20 meters and


Nathan sprinted 13 meters. How
many meters did they sprint all
together?

5. John’s driveway is 17 meters


long and Ella’s driveway is 12
meters long. How much longer
is John’s driveway?
Measurement Word Problems

Question Solve: Answe


r
1. Paul ran 98 meters and
Abigail ran 79 meters. How
much further did Paul run?

2. Karen’s rose bush is 65


inches tall and Hannah’s bush
is 53 inches tall. How tall are
both of their bushes together.

3. A wall in a room is 60 feet


long. The teacher wants to line
up five tables that are 10 feet
long a piece. Is there enough
room?

4. The living room has a


vaulted ceiling that is 108
inches tall. But the bedroom is
only 84 inches tall. How much
taller is the living room ceiling?

5. Evan has 65 cm of yarn


and Caden has 53 cm of
yarn. How much yarn do
they have altogether?

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