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Tips for Helping your Fifth Grader with Measurements in Math Homework

Measurement is a math skill that all fifth graders should master. Read on to help your child master metric and U.S. measurements.

Helping your fifth grader understand how the U.S. measurements relate to metric measurements can be difficult. In fifth grade, your child should know how to perform simple conversions within and between the systems.

There are easy ways to remember the conversions of U.S. to metric length and even U.S. to other U.S. lengths. And, when your child comes home with a math measurement problem, the conversions and basic adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing are all that is needed.

The basic measurement conversions for the U.S. system are as follows:

  • 1 foot=12 inches
  • 1 yard=3 feet/36 inches
  • 1 mile = 63,360 inches/5,280 feet/1,760 yards

In the metric system, the meter is the basic unit of length.

  • 10 meters=1 decameter
  • 100 meters=1 hectometer
  • 1000 meters=1 kilometer
  • 1/10 of a meter= 1 decimeter
  • 1/100 of a meter= 1 cm. (centimeter)
  • 1/1000 of a meter= 1 mm. (millimeter)

The hardest part of measurement conversion is doing so between the U.S. and metric systems. The following basic measurements can be converted as follows:

  • 1 inch = 25.4 millimeters
  • 1 foot = 3.5 decimeters
  • 1 yard =0.914 meter
  • 1 mile = 1.6 kilometers

Many of the problems fifth grade students bring home may require unit conversions. Practice will only help your child improve their conversion skills and help them to remember the values for use in assignments as well as their daily lives.

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