• Length (Abdul Razak Othman, Abraham Joseph Michael etc.

2003)
 
• Length is the distance between two points from end to end. The basic unit used for
measuring length is metre (m). The metric system is easy to understand because it is
logically arranged and is all based on ten.
• The units used to measure length are:
 
1 centimetre (cm) : 10 milimetres (mm)
1 metre (m) : 100 centimetre (cm)
1 metre (m) : 1000 milimetre (mm)
1 kilometre (km) : 1000 metre (m)
  
• Measuring how long things are, how tall they are, or how far apart they might be are all
examples of length measurements. These are the examples that can be measured by its
unit.
• Time (Abdul Razak Othman, Abraham Joseph Michael etc. 2003)
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• Time is the interval between two events. The SI unit of time is second. The other units of time are minute, hour, day, week, month and year.
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1 minute = 60 seconds
• 1 hour = 60 minutes
• 1 day = 24 hours
• 1 week = 7 days
• 1 year = 52 weeks
• 1 year = 12 months
• 1 year = 365 or 366 days
• 1 decade = 10 years
• 1 century = 100 years
• 1 millennium =1000 years
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• Measuring Time.
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• Stopwatches, clocks and calendars are used to measure time. For example, it will take you a few minutes to brush your teeth but it will take a few days for a
seed to sprout.
• Stopwatches and clocks are use to measure time in seconds, minutes or hours. A calendar is use to measure time in days, weeks, or months. Appropriate units
must be use in measuring events. (Abdul Razak Othman, Abraham Joseph, etc. 2003)
• The earliest clocks were shadow clocks. A stick was placed upright in the ground and as the sun passed through the daytime sky, the shadow would move
around the stick. A sundial is a type of shadow clock.
 nonstandard Units
• Before we had customary and metric units
people measured various things with their
body parts.
• Examples:
• How many hands tall is the horse you are
buying?
• One yard of fabric is the distance from your
thumb to your nose.
• finger- the width across your first finger
• hand- the width across your hand with your fingers together.
• cubit- length of your arm from the end of your middle finger
to your elbow
• pace- length of a step or stride length stride
• fathom - distance from fingertips of left hand to right hand
with arms outstretched
• inch- distance from the tip of your thumb to the first knuckle.
• yard- distance between thumb and nose with hand extended
(stretched out)
• span- distance between the tips of the thumb and little finger
with hand extended (spread apart)