Customary Lengths

• A foot is 12 inches, or about the length from your elbow to to wrist.

• A yard is 3 feet or about the length of your leg.

• A mile is 5,280 feet or about how far you can walk in 15 minutes

Capacity Units

• Common units include cups, pints, quarts, and gallons

• 1 cup is 8 fluid ounces

Converting Capacity Measures

• What operation is used when converting from a bigger unit to a smaller unit, like gallons to quarts?

  
  

• What operation is used when converting from a smaller unit to a bigger unit like cups to pints?

Converting Units

If you know the number of pounds, multiply by 16 to convert to ounces.

If you know the number of ounces, divide by 16 to convert to pounds.