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Grade 4 · Measurement

Food-bank packing: combine metres with extra centimetres

A measurement for a food-bank packing station consists of 3 whole metres and 34 extra centimetres. Change the controls and explain what the animation reveals.

Predict what will happen, press Play, then pause and explain what changed. Every control also works without playback.

Watch the relationship

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Food-bank packing: combine metres with extra centimetres. Larger units still bundled: 3. Smaller units represented now: 34. Final smaller-unit total: 3343 × 100 + 34 = 3341 m1 m1 mExtra: 34 cm · Same total: 334 cm1 metre = 100 centimetres exactly.
The exact metric relation is 1 metre = 100 centimetres. Extra units are less than one full larger unit. The diagram is a conversion model, not a life-size ruler or balance.

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Make it your experiment

Change one value. Notice what follows.

The controls adjust the model. Numbers below describe the current frame. Decimals are rounded.

Larger units still bundled
3
Smaller units represented now
34
Final smaller-unit total
334

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Understand what you are seeing

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A measurement for a food-bank packing station consists of 3 whole metres and 34 extra centimetres. One of the larger units contains 100 of the smaller units. Convert the whole-unit part first, then add the extra part in the same unit; do not add differently sized units as if they were identical. The total is 334 centimetres, or 3.34 metres. Both names refer to the same measurement.

A relationship to keep

3 × 100 + 34 = 334 centimetres

Read the symbols alongside the explanation. A diagram shows the relationship; the assumptions tell you when it applies.

  1. STEP 1

    Read the starting situation

    A measurement for a food-bank packing station consists of 3 whole metres and 34 extra centimetres. Identify what each number measures before changing a control; the worked example refers to these starting values.

  2. STEP 2

    Follow the mathematical change

    Follow the conversion from the larger-unit part to its smaller-unit equivalent, then combine the extra smaller units. Pause on an intermediate frame and compare the picture with the live readouts.

  3. STEP 3

    Explain and test the relationship

    The total is 334 centimetres, or 3.34 metres. Both names refer to the same measurement. Change one input, predict its effect, and test whether the same relationship still works.

Your turn to explain

Make a prediction. Test your reasoning.

Food-bank packing: use the original situation. A measurement for a food-bank packing station consists of 3 whole metres and 34 extra centimetres. What is the measurement entirely in centimetres?

Use the values specified in the question. Reset restores the initial values for this investigation.

Compare your explanation

334 centimetres: 300 from the whole metres, plus 34 extra.

Work through a full lesson

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Convert through metric length units

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