Measurements involve calculating space and distance using tools like rulers, compasses, protractors, and sextants. Measurement is connected to daily life as sailors use sextants and compasses, and construction workers use measuring tapes. Various units can be converted, like 100 centimeters in a meter or 1000 meters in a kilometer.

1. measurements
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2. what is measurements?
✦ measurements is a method to calculate space
✦ there are many materials for measurement such as a ruler compass protractor and
sextant
✦ there are also a verity of verbs related to measurement
✦ such as vertex(endpoint of an angle)
✦ hight (Y)
✦ width(Z)
✦ length(X)
✦ meter
✦ centimeter
✦ and etc
✦ kilogram (kg)
✦ kilometer(km)

3. what is compass, protractor
ruler ,sextant and measuring
tape
✦ sextant is a material to help sailors measure their position at sea
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A ruler is a equipment that helps you measure meters and centimeters
✦ protractor helps you measure degrees and angles
✦ compass is a material to help you draw arc circles
✦ A measuring tape is a material that help construction builders measure centimeter
and meters
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4. how is measurement connected
to our daily life
✦ If you think a little more about measurement it is actually used almost every day
✦ sailors go to sea every certain day which a sextant and a compass is needed
✦ And construction builders work everyday which a measuring tape is needed
✦ and business workers use rulers everyday to line of there work or measure the
size of packages
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5. how is measurement connected
to materials
✦ well a compass a sextant a ruler and a measuring tape is already a material it
self
✦ and the words meter hight length and width is also a material to help us on
measurement
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6. how could we convert to other units by
measurement
✦ well a meter equals to 100 centimeter
✦ 60 minutes to a hour
✦ 60 second to 1 minuet
✦ 1 kilometer to 1000 meter
✦ 1 nanometer equals to 1,000,000,000 meter
✦ 1 picometer equals 1,000,000,000,000 meter
✦ hectometer equals to 100 meter
✦ millimeter 1000 meter

7. Glossory
✦ if you are wondering what is y,z and x it is actually short forms to write a equation with
length width and height for example
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8. reference
✦ www.google.com
✦ http://www.brainpop.com/
✦ http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_centimeters_are_in_a_meter