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Measurement Conversions Activity — Matching Lengths

  • Updated

    Updated:  19 Mar 2025

Provide students with this conversions activity to let them practice converting between common metric and customary units of length.

  • Editable

    Editable:  Google Slides

  • Non-Editable

    Non-Editable:  PDF

  • Pages

    Pages:  9 Pages

  • Curriculum
  • Grades

    Grades:  4 - 6

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teaching resource

Measurement Conversions Activity — Matching Lengths

  • Updated

    Updated:  19 Mar 2025

Provide students with this conversions activity to let them practice converting between common metric and customary units of length.

  • Editable

    Editable:  Google Slides

  • Non-Editable

    Non-Editable:  PDF

  • Pages

    Pages:  9 Pages

  • Curriculum
  • Grades

    Grades:  4 - 6

Provide students with this conversions activity to let them practice converting between common metric and customary units of length.

“Measure” Student Progress With Our Conversions Activity

Boost your students’ skill with this engaging conversions activity! Designed to help students practice metric and customary length conversions, this matching activity lets them pair conversion problems with the correct answers. Students can record their matches on a provided recording sheet, and answer keys are included for easy checking. Perfect for reinforcing measurement concepts in a fun, interactive way.

Included in this measurement conversion activity:

  • Instructions
  • 18 question cards
  • 18 answer cards
  • Recording sheet
  • Answer key

The units of length used in this resource:

  • millimeters
  • centimeters
  • meters
  • kilometers
  • inches
  • feet
  • yards
  • miles

Using Our Converting Units of Length Matching Activity 

This converting units of length resource is easy to prepare and can be used in many ways. Here is how to get started:

  1. Prior to student use, cut apart the 36 task cards. We recommend printing them on cardstock and laminating for longevity.
  2. Students will match each orange conversion card to the correct blue answer card, making 18 matches.
  3. Students should record their answers on the answer sheet, and can check them with the answer key.

This matching activity is great for math centers, small groups, and partner work. It makes a fun “Scoot” around the room activity as well!

Download Our Measurement Conversion Activities

To download measurement conversion activities like this one, simply click the drop-down arrow on the download button. From there, select either the Google Slides or PDF version of this resource.


This resource was created by Cassandra Friesen, a teacher in Colorado and Teach Starter Collaborator.


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