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Free 11+ Measures Word Problems worksheet
Cutting lengths, filling glasses from a jug, scaling a recipe, distances walked, weight left in a bag and fencing round a garden.
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Medium · Set 309420
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Maths Word Problems · Medium
Measures Word Problems
Set 309420A bag holds 1.5 kg of flour. Priya uses 200 g for bread and 400 g for a cake. How many grams are left?
Noah cuts a 4 m ribbon into pieces that are each 20 cm long. How many pieces does Noah get?
A bag holds 2 kg of flour. Ethan uses 275 g for bread and 375 g for a cake. How many grams are left?
Harry walks 550 m to school and the same distance home again, every day for 5 days. How far does Harry walk altogether, in kilometres?
What it practises
Cutting lengths, filling glasses from a jug, scaling a recipe, distances walked, weight left in a bag and fencing round a garden.
How to solve them
Change everything into the same unit before you start (1 m = 100 cm, 1 litre = 1000 ml, 1 kg = 1000 g), and check your answer has the right unit.
How to use it
Print the questions and keep the answers page to one side. Allow about 20 minutes, then mark it together and talk through anything that went wrong using the explanations. Move up a level once your child gets most of them right.
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