2nd Quarter Week 1

Approximates the measures of

quantities particularly length,
weight/mass, volume, time, angle and
temperature and rate.
• Measurements should be as accurate and precise
as possible. Accuracy pertains to the closeness of
the measurements to the true value while precision
refers to the degree to which successive
measurements agree with each other

• However, no matter how accurate the act of

measurement is considered an approximate value.
 Measuring Length
Length is a measure of how long an object
is or the distance between two points. It is
used for identifying the size of an object or
distance from one point to another. The
length of an object is its extended
dimension, that is, its longest side.
 Measuring Length
• Use the Millimeters to measure the small objects
like the thickness of a book, a paper clip or
microchips.
• Use the Centimeter to measure bigger ones like
length of a fork, a pencil or a book.
• Use the Meters to measure longer lengths like
flagpole or a piece of land.
• Use the Kilometers - To measure distance between
towns
 Measuring Mass
When you want to know how heavy an object is, you
are quantifying a physical attribute of that object
called mass. We buy things in cans, jars, and sachets.
Written in these containers are the net weight of the
contents. Mass is the amount of matter an object
contains.
 Measuring Mass
• Milligrams – terms used in measuring very light
objects such as solid medicine quantity
• Grams - terms used in measuring objects like gold
ring, a cup of sugar, and a small pack of peanuts
• Kilograms - heavier measures like the weight of a
person and a sack of rice
 Measuring Capacity
• The volume of a container is the number of a cubic
units of space it encloses. The units of capacity are
used to describe how much container will hold. In
the laboratories, the most common device used for
measuring volume of liquid is the graduated
cylinder.
• Most graduated cylinders are calibrated to the
nearest millimeters. Medicine syrups and soft drink
capacities are express in millimeters, while gasoline
and water tanks are given in liters.
 Measuring Temperature
• The measure of the hotness and coldness of an object is
called temperature. Gabriel Fahrenheit created the
Fahrenheit scale in the early years of 18th century. He
set the freezing point of water at 32 degrees and the
boiling point at 212 degrees. In the latter part of the
18th century, Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer,
devised the Celsius scale. He determined the freezing
point as 0 degrees and boiling point as 100 degrees.
There is a limit to how cold something can be. The Kelvin
scale is designed to go to zero at this minimum
temperature. Thermometer are used to measure
temperature.
 Measuring Time
• Time is one of the fundamental quantities of the
physical world. It is a period during which an action
or event occurs. Some of the instruments used in
measuring time are the common wristwatch,
pendulum clock, atomic clock, cesium clock, and
quartz crystal clock. These are collectively called
chronometers. These instruments are used to
measure fractions of a day. For longer periods of
time, the calendar is used.
 Measuring Angle
• Angles are formed when two rays that are not on
the same line meet or intersect at a common
endpoint. A protractor is used for measuring
angles. The common endpoint is called the vertex
and the rays are called the side s of an angle from
the latin word angulus which means corner.
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