Year 4 Calculation and conversion of measures worksheet

“Thousands in metric units” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 4 maths unit “Calculation and conversion of measures”, for children aged 8 to 9, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Week 5 of the year, 5 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Thousands in metric units

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 4 · Maths · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can use 1000 to convert between metric units, like 2 kg is 2000 g.

A Look back3 min

1.
300 + 40 =
2.
4 tens is
3.
1400 1040

B Watch me, then you4 min

Sam is baking. A bag of flour weighs 2 kg, and the scales show grams too.

A kitchen shelf with a jug, a bag of flour and a row of tins

Watch me

1 kg is 1000 g.

2 kg is 1000 g and another 1000 g.

1000 + 1000 = 2000, so 2 kg is 2000 g.

Now you

1.
1 litre = 1000 ml. A jug holds 3 litres. How many ml is that?

C Your turn6 min

1.
1 km = 1000 m. So 2 km = m.
2.
1 kg = 1000 g. So 3 kg = g.
3.
1 kg = 1000 g. So 4 kg = g.
4.
1 kg = 1000 g. So 4000 g = kg.

Say it out loud: What stays the same in the first three rows, and what changes? How is the last row different?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A plain long wooden bar and a small pencil lying flat on a light table.

Ava says: “1 metre is 1000000 millimetres, because milli sounds like million.”

1.
How many millimetres are in 1 metre?

E Think deeper4 min

1.
A path is 2 km long. Ali has walked 1500 m. How many metres are left?

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Thousands in metric units · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. 340

2. 40

3. >

B

1. 3000 your child may have added 1000 to 3 once, which gives 1003. Ask: each litre is 1000 ml, so how many thousands are in 3 litres?

C

1. 2000 your child may have added 2 and 1000, which gives 1002. Ask how many lots of 1000 m make 2 km.

2. 3000

3. 4000

4. 4 your child may have divided 4000 by 10, which gives 400. Ask how many thousands are in 4000.

D

1. 1000 your child may have followed the word million and written 1000000. Milli means one thousandth, so 1000 mm make 1 m.

E

1. 500 your child may have added the lengths, which gives 3500. Ask how many metres are in 2 km, then how many Ali still has to walk.

Words to use

Say“Which unit is bigger, and how many of the small unit make one of the big one?”

Instead of“Just tell them the answer.”

After the sheet

Find a 1 kg bag of flour or sugar. Ask how many grams it holds, then how many grams are in 2 kg.

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The rest of this unit

4 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Parts of one thousand(with a plan)
Scales up to 2,000(with a plan)
Gaps on the graph(with a plan)
Measures with two steps(with a plan)

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