VIVEKAM SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL

GRADE 4 MATHEMATICS WORKSHEET

LONG AND SHORT

1. Which is a better unit to measure these? (cm, m or km)

(a) Length of a pin__________

(b) Height of a house___________

(c) Distance the scooter travels___________

(d) Length of a park ____________

(e)Length of a pen__________

2. Fill in the blanks:

(a) The standard unit for measuring length is ___________

(b) 1 km = _______m.
(c) 1 m =_________cm.
(d) My father’s height is 135 centimetres. Then it is.................... in metres.
(e) If the distance of my school to home is 2 km, then the distance in m is...............

3. Five trains ran around a track, which is as shown below. Number of rounds
completed by each train are as follows:

TRAIN NO NO OF ROUNDS
1 4
2 5
3 3
4 6
5 2
Answer the following questions on the basis of given information.

(a) What is the distance covered by Train 3? (in km and m)

(b) Who’s train ran the minimum distance and how much? (in m)

(c) What is the difference between the distance covered by Train 2 and Train 5? (in m)

4. Find the answers:

(a) Find the sum of 9 m 35 cm and 18 m 35 cm

(b) Find the sum of 537 m 63 cm and 102 m

(c) Find the sum of 145 km 34 m and 563 km 56 m

(d) Find the difference of 13 km 230 m and 42 km 730 m

(e) Find the difference of 105 m 52 cm and 264 m

5. Solve the following:

(a) A cloth merchant sold 18 m 68 cm cotton and 45 m 96 cm silk cloth. How much

total cloth did he sell?

(b) Sita is 1 m 30 cm tall and her sister Rita is 1m 60 cm tall. Who is taller

and by how much?

(c) Aaron bought 9 m 75 cm of cloth. He used 2 m 30 cm from it. How

much cloth is left?

(d) Maria purchased 24 m 25 cm rope and Nancy purchased 17 m 15 cm

rope. What is the total length of ropes both of them purchased?

(e) Richard’s house is 7 km 300 m away from school and Alex’s house is

11 km 432 m away from school. Whose house is far and by how much?

(f) Mike is at a distance of 10 km 150 m. She travelled 8 km 260 m by bus

and the rest on a rickshaw. Find the distance travelled by rickshaw.