Learning Exercise

Conversion Practice: English and Metric

Two practice work sheets for converting English and metric units. Students should be able to demonstrate knowledge in converting meters to centimeters, milliliters to ounces, etc.
Course: First semester Chemistry or Physics
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Exercise

This assignment is formatted in PDF.
The instructor will go to the given website and locate the two practice
activities located in the sub-section titled Conversion Practice.
The practice activities include the answers.
The instructor will need to print the worksheets and omit the answers when the
students are given them.
Calculators will be necessary for the calculations.

Technical Notes

The learning material requires Adobe Acrobat. The learning material also requires either Netscape or Internet Explorer.

Requirements

Basic multiplication skills are required. Students need to know of the abbreviations for centimeters, ounces, pounds, etc. (cm, oz, lbs).

Topics

Converting units using the English and the metric systems.

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to take a quantity measured in an English or metric unit and convert that quantity to a different English or metric unit.