MEASURING SURFACE 1. What are the dimensions of the oblong page 36? 37 3. How many rows of 6 square inches are there in the oblong? 4. What part of the oblong is one of these rows? What part is two rows? 5. How many rows of 3 square inches are there in the oblong? 6. What part of the oblong is one row? What part is 2 rows? 3 rows? 4 rows? 5 rows? 7. What part of the oblong is 1 square inch? What part is 2 square inches? 3 square inches? inches? 9 square 8. How many three-inch squares can be cut from the oblong? 9. How many two-inch squares can be cut from the oblong? 10. How many oblongs 2 inches long and 1 inch wide can be made from the oblong? 11. What number belongs in each of these blanks? 12. In 18 there are how many 6's? How many 2's in 18? What part of 18 is 6? 13. In 18 there are how many 9's? 18? What part of 18 is 9? 14. How many 3's in 6? How many 3's in 3? How many 3's in 9? What part of 18 is 3? How many 3's in How many 3's in 12? How many 3's in 15? How many 3's in 18? 1. Measure and find how many feet wide the cloak room of your schoolroom is. How many feet long? 2. A yard stick is 3 feet long. How many yards long is the cloak room of your schoolroom? 3. If a strip of carpet were laid from the door to the teacher's desk, how many feet long would it be? How many yards long? 4. How long, in feet and inches, would a flower box have to be to cover the longest window sill in your schoolroom? 5. How many whole feet is the lower edge of the blackboard, in your schoolroom, above the floor? How many feet and inches? How many inches? 6. How many feet is the lowest hat hook, in the cloak room, from the floor? How many feet and inches? How many inches? 7. Place a mark on the blackboard as high as the top of your head is from the floor. How tall are you, in feet and inches? In inches? 8. Place a mark on the blackboard as high as you can reach. How many feet and inches is it from the floor? How many inches? 9. With a piece of chalk in each hand, make two marks upon the blackboard at the same time, as far apart as you can reach. Tell, without measuring, how far you think the marks are apart. Measure, and tell the difference between your first answer and the correct one. 10. Copy on a separate sheet, filling the blanks: TABLE inches make 1 foot. feet make 1 yard. MEASURING LENGTH-SUMS 39 1. How many inches long is the front edge of your desk? 2. How many inches high is your desk? 3. How many feet high is a window sill in your schoolroom? 4. How many feet wide is the window? 5. Your schoolroom is how many feet long? How many yards long? 6. Your schoolroom is how many feet wide? How many yards wide? 7. How long, in feet, is one end of your schoolroom? How long are the two ends? How long is one side? How long are the two sides? How long are the two sides and ends together? 8. Step off what you think is 5 yards, on a straight line. Measure, and find how much greater or less it is than 5 yards. 9. How many feet in 36 inches? In 24 inches? 10. A blackboard 6 feet long is how many yards long? 11. A box that is 2 yards long is how many feet long? 12. A room 12 feet wide is how many yards wide? 13. How many yards are there around a table 2 yards long and 1 yard wide? |