Estimating and Measuring Capacity

Estimating and Measuring Capacity

What is estimating?

• Let’s look at it as a smart guess. It should be pretty accurate but not perfectly accurate.

Multiple Choice

What is estimating?

• It has to be the correct answer.

• It's a smart guess.

• It has to be more than the answer.

• It has to be less than the answer.

What is measuring?

• A number that shows the size or amount of something.

  
  

Multiple Choice

What is measuring?

• A number that shows 100.

• A number that shows an approximate value.

• A number that shows the size or amount of something.

• A number that shows the size and litre of something.

What is capacity?

• The amount of liquid a container can hold is called capacity.

What is litre?

• Litres is the standard unit for measuring capacity.

• It is represented using this symbol.

• ℓ

Multiple Choice

What is litre?

• Litres is a bottle.

• Litres is the standard unit for measuring capacity.

• Litre is used to measure the number of car tyres.

• Litre is used to measure the number of footballs in a sack.

What is a millilitre?

• It is a small unit of volume.

Multiple Choice

What is a millilitre?

• It a measure of a big unit of volume.

• It is used to measure the amount of rice on a plate.

• I don't know.

• It is a small unit of volume.

LITRES

HOW TO CONVERT

ML to L

&

L to ML

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What have you learnt today?

• What is estimating

• What is measuring

• What is capacity

• What is a millilitre

• What is a litre