Converting Units

Some maths worksheets to practise converting units from cm to m and m to cm.

Why can some children find this confusing?

Because metres are larger than centimetres, BUT to get from metres to centimetres you must multiply. So a child imagines centimetres as being smaller than a metre, but then they must multiply by 100 which feels bigger. It’s difficult to explain, so I hope you understand what I mean!
It helps to think in terms of ‘more than’ and ‘less than’. There are more cm so multiply because this will give you more.

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mm to cm and back

cm to m and back

some more conversion practise.

Now you can practice converting from millimetres to metres.

Some maths worksheets to practise converting units from cm to m and m to mm.

Why can some children find this confusing?

Because it’s too much to do all at once. Simply break it down into two steps and it makes total sense. Have a look at the worksheets below.

mm to m and m to mm

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