Measure Everyday Objects in Centimeters
A measure in centimeters worksheet: 5 objects on a 15 cm ruler, pencil 7 cm, crayon 9, key 8, spoon 5, marker 13, every one starting at 0.
- Size
- US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), fits A4
- 2 pages: the worksheet and its answer key
- Level
- Grade 2
- License
- Free for personal & classroom use
About this worksheet
Each object lies on its own 15-centimeter ruler with the left end at 0, and the child reads the number at the right end into a sentence: the pencil is 7 centimeters, the crayon 9, the key 8, the spoon 5 and the marker 13. All answers are whole centimeters, so this is the first metric page, before halves appear. Page 2 lists the five lengths. It is a second-grade page of about five minutes. A good follow-up is to notice that the crayon on this sheet is longer than the pencil, unlike real life, which starts a conversation about drawings being to scale with the ruler rather than with each other.
Tips for using it
- Have your child say the word centimeters in full for each answer, not just the number.
- Measure a real crayon in centimeters and compare with the 9 cm drawing.
- Ask how much longer the marker is than the spoon.
- Put the five objects in order from shortest to longest using the numbers.
Printing tips
Download the PDF and print at 100% (or “fit to page” on A4). Page 1 is the worksheet and page 2 is the answer key with the answers in red; print just page 1 if you want to keep the answers for checking. Free for personal, family and classroom use.
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