Measures of Length

(a) How many inches are in one foot? 1 foot inches.

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(d) Using a foot ruler draw

on the board a line 2 feet long.

Measure this line with a yardstick. How many inches long is the line? 2 feet

With a yard stick

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inches.

draw a line 2 yards long.

(e) On the board draw a line 15 inches long. Measure

18 inches = feet - inches

(f) On the board draw a line which you think is 3 feet long. Now measure this line in feet and inches. How long is the line?

(g) Guess how wide your schoolroom is. Measure the width in feet and inches. Do the same with the length of the schoolroom. Measure the length and width of a blackboard. The width and height of a window.

ORAL OR WRITTEN WORK

1. Betty has a piece of ribbon 4 yards long. How many feet long is it?

2. A certain piece of cloth is 2 feet wide. How many inches wide is it?

3. Don cut a rope 6 yards long into 2 equal pieces. Each piece was yards long. How many feet is

this?

4. Jane bought a sash 6 feet long. How many yards is this? How much did it cost at 30 cents a yard?

5. Mary cut a ribbon 6 yards long into three equal pieces. How long was each piece?

6. What part of a yard is 1 foot? If ribbon costs 36¢ a yard, how much will 1 foot of ribbon cost?

7. A schoolroom is 40 feet long. How many yards is this, and how many feet over?

8. Our hall is 5 yards 2 feet long. How many feet is this?

9. Dan is 4 feet 3 inches tall. How many inches is

(a) When you buy potatoes, your grocer often measures them in a quart measure, a peck measure, or a bushel basket.

Name some other articles that are often bought by the peck or bushel.

(b) Fill a quart measure with sand and empty it into a peck measure. How many times must you empty the quart measure into the peck measure to fill the peck measure? 1 peck quarts.

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(c) In the same way fill a bushel measure from a peck measure.

1 bushel

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pecks.

(d) Learn this table of dry measure.

(e) How many quarts does it take to fill a peck measure 3 times? 3 pecks

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quarts.

(ƒ) How many bushel baskets will 8 pecks of anything fill? 8 pecks bushels.

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(g) If you know that tomatoes cost 32¢ a peck, how would you find out how much they cost a quart? Is a quart larger or smaller than a peck? Then would a quart of tomatoes cost more or less than 32¢? Then would you multiply 32 by 8 or divide 32 by 8 to find the cost of a quart?

(h) If potatoes cost 40¢ a peck, how much is this a bushel? Is it more or less than 40¢? Do you multiply or divide by 4?

ORAL OR WRITTEN WORK

1. Father bought 8 pecks of potatoes. How many bushels did he buy?

2. Dried peas cost 16¢ a quart. At this rate how much will a peck of dried peas cost?

3. How many quart boxes can be filled from 3 pecks of berries?

4. Make up a problem about filling peck baskets from 4 bushels of apples.

5. Henry gathered 16 quarts of nuts. pecks did he gather?

How many

6. If I feed my horse a peck of oats a day, how long will 1 bushel of oats last?

last?

How long will 6 bushels

7. How many quarts are there in 1 bushel?

8. If beans cost 12 é a quart, how much is 1 peck of beans worth? 2 pecks?

Find the cost of:

9. 1 bushel of apples, if 1 peck costs 32¢. 10. 1 quart of cherries, if 1 peck costs 64¢. 11. 2 pecks of new potatoes, if 1 quart costs 6¢. 12. 2 bushels of tomatoes, if 1 peck costs 25¢.

(a) When you buy cheese, your grocer weighs it on his scales. He sells cheese by the pound.

If it weighs less than a pound, he uses smaller measures of weight, called ounces.

(b) How many ounces in pound? In pound? (c) If cheese costs 32¢ a pound, how much will 8 ounces of cheese cost? 4 ounces?