1. Measure the width of a table in feet and inches.

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inches.

3. Some articles are sold by a measure 3 times the length of a foot rule. Name some of them.

4. Draw a line on the blackboard 3 feet in length.

5. The line you have drawn is one yard long.

6. A piece of cloth is 6 yards long. How many feet is it in length?

1. Frank has a row of potatoes in his garden 150 ft. long. How many yards long is it?

2. Susan lives 360 yd. from the schoolhouse. How feet does she live from the schoolhouse?

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3. A steamship that is 960 ft. in length is how many yards long?

4. A man who is 6 ft. in height is how many inches in height? how many yards?

5. The schoolroom is 40 ft. in length. How many yards and feet over is that?

6. The schoolroom is 30 ft. in width. How many yards wide is it?

7. John is 5 ft. 4 in. in height. How many inches is he in height? Show this by the tapeline.

8. Mary sits 5 ft. from the teacher's desk. How many inches does she sit from the teacher's desk?

9. The schoolroom door is 3 ft. 9 in. wide. How many inches wide is the door?

10. Paul measures the distance that he lives from the schoolhouse and finds that it is 900 feet. How many yards is this distance?

11. Two girls measure with a tapeline the distance around the schoolhouse, and find that it is 140 ft. How many yards and how many feet over is this distance?

12. Mary is 4 ft. 7 in. tall. How many inches in height is she?

1. Measure this figure with your rule. How long is it? how wide? How many equal sides has it?

2. What is a square inch? How does the entire figure differ from one square inch ?

A figure having square corners and longer than it is wide is called an oblong.

3. Cut from paper an oblong 1 inch wide and 4 inches long, and fold it to show the number of square inches in it. Do the same with an oblong 2 inches wide and 4 inches long.

4. An oblong is 5 inches long and contains 15 square inches. Draw the oblong to show the width and the number of square inches.

5. An oblong has 24 square inches. It is 6 inches long. Draw the figure on paper. Fold it to show each square inch.

6. An oblong 6 inches long and 3 inches wide will make an oblong inches long and 1 inch wide.

7. Show that a square containing 9 square inches is 3 inches on each side.

1. Draw a square 1 inch long and 1 inch wide. Call it a square inch.

2. Draw on the blackboard a square 1 foot long and 1 foot wide. Call it a square foot.

3. Draw on the blackboard a square 1 yard long and 1 yard wide. Call it a square yard.

4. Separate, by points, each side of the square yard into 3 equal parts. Connect these points by straight lines. What is the size of each square? How many square feet are there in a square yard?

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yard

5. This picture

shows a

square yard, smaller than it really is. How many square feet does it show?

9 square feet = 1 square yard 9 sq. ft. 1 sq. yd.

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6. Measure your desk. desk. Decide on a convenient scale and draw a figure to represent the top of your desk.

7. Let inch stand for 1 foot, and draw an oblong to represent the floor of a room 20 feet long and 16 feet wide.

8. Decide on a convenient scale and draw an oblong to represent a flower bed 10 feet long and 5 feet wide.

1. Draw an oblong 6 inches long and 4 inches wide. Divide it into square inches. How many square inches are there in one row? How many rows are there? How many square inches are there in the entire oblong?

2. Draw another oblong 3 inches long and 2 inches wide, and find, in the same way, how many square inches it contains.

3. Draw an oblong 5 inches long and 4 inches wide and find, in the same way, how many square inches it contains.

Notice that the number of square inches equals the product of the number of inches in the length by the number of inches in the width.

4. Find the number of square feet in the floor of your classroom.

5. How many square inches are there in a four-inch square? Illustrate.

6. How many square inches can you cut from a piece of paper 4 inches long and 4 inches wide?

7. Draw two cards each containing 12 square inches.

8. A garden bed is 6 feet long and 10 feet wide. How many square feet does it contain?

9. How many square inches are there in a scarf 50 in. long and 6 in. wide?