Performance includes converting millimeters to inches, inches to millimeters, meters to feet, and feet to meters. Students should also be able to round conversions to the nearest whole unit.
Process/Skill Questions:
- When are metric measurements preferred to Imperial measurements, and vice versa?
- Why might it be necessary to convert measurements from U.S. customary to metric or from metric to U.S. customary?
- Why are measurements often rounded to the nearest whole unit?