measurement

The wood reaches the 6-inch mark on the ruler. This means it is 6-inches long.

This wood plank is closest to the number 10, so it is about 10 inches long.

This is a yardstick, and it measures in feet. There 12 inches in one foot and there are 3 feet in 1 yard. This whole yarstick measures out to equal one yard. This tool is marked with inches, feet, and yards. Yards are used to measure larger objects or distances.

I want to find the exact measurement of this wood plank using a yardstick. Reading the yardstick, the numbers tell us the amount in feet, and each of the ticks is 1 inch. The plank is longer than 2 feet, so we will count each tick after the 2 feet mark to get our final measurement. So the plank is 2 feet 6 inches.

This is a tape measure, and it measures inches, feet, and sometimes yards. Some tape measures are over 20 feet long! They are great for measuring long and short distances, because you can pull out the amount of tape you want to use.

Start by measuring the wood at zero then hook the end of the tape measure to the end of the wood. It measures 5 ft to the nearest foot and ends on the third tick after 5 ft. So this wood measures at 5 ft 3 inches.