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Question
Compare your measurement with your friends.
- Who has the biggest head and who has the smallest head?
- Who has the longest hand (from middle finger to wrist)?
- Which is longer? Your ear or your nose?
- Is any of your nails more than 1 centimetre long?
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Solution
Do it yourself.
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| Sports | World Record | Indian Record |
| High Jump (Men) | Javier S. (2m 45 cm) | Chandra Pal (2m 17 cm) |
| Long Jump (Men) | Mike P. (8m 95 cm) | Amrit Pal (8m 8 cm) |
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Look for things that are about 10 cm long.
Activity 1
- Find some things that look 1 metre long.
- Use your metre-rope to find which of these things are more or less than 1 metre.
| Name of the thing | More than 1 metre | Less than 1 metre |
| Length of table | - | - |
| Width of table | - | - |
| Width of door | - | - |
| Length of door | - | - |
| - | - | |
| - | - | |
| - | - |
Which of these will be in centimetres and which will be in metres?
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