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Question
Look for things that are about 10 cm long.
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Solution
Mobile phone, comb, coffee mug.
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Think - How will you know the number of centimetres if you measure with a rope, shoe-string, thread etc.?
| My measurement | My friend's measurement | |
| Nose | ______ centimetres | ______ centimetres |
| Around the wrist | ______ centimetres | ______ centimetres |
| Around the head | ______ centimetres | ______ centimetres |
| Ear | ______ centimetres | ______ centimetres |
| Hand (tip of middle finger to wrist) | ______ centimetres | ______ centimetres |
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- Who has the biggest head and who has the smallest head?
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- Which is longer? Your ear or your nose?
- Is any of your nails more than 1 centimetre long?
You must have seen shopkeepers measuring cloth with a metre rod.
- Take a metre rod and a rope.
- Make a knot at one end of the rope.
- Keep the metre rod with the rope.
- Mark 1 metre on the rope and make a knot there.
- Now the length between the two knots is 1 metre. This is your metre-rope.
If you don't get a metre rod use a measuring-tape and mark 100 centimetres on the rope. 100 centimetres are equal to a metre, so you get the metre-rope.
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 | - | - |
| - | - | |
| - | - | |
| - | - |
Now make a chart of the heights of your friends. To measure the centimetres, you can use your small scale.
| Name | Taller/Shorter/Equal to 1 metre | How many centimetres more or less than a metre |
| Shambhu | Taller | 4 centimetres |
| ______ | ______ | ______ |
| ______ | ______ | ______ |
| ______ | ______ | ______ |
| ______ | ______ | ______ |
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