Performing operations on units of measurements is an easier concept and are far better than performing addition on them. In other words, it will make your calculations easier, with minimum chances of errors. Moreover, with addition or subtraction, you have to same types of objects to measure. For instance, you can add 2 and 3 chairs to get five chairs, but what will you do when you have to add two chairs and three tables? In this scenario, your only option is to make the units the same. Of course, you can’t change a chair into a table. But both of them are part of the furniture; so let’s make it furniture; i.e., add three pieces of furniture and two pieces of furniture to make it five pieces of furniture.

Have you ever made a cake or cookies? Baking often involves fractional recipes that all have units of measure. There will be many times in your life where more people or hungrier people are showing up and you will be required to double or even triple a recipe. We show you how to go about multiplying measures. Remember that units of measure are not affected as long as they are in the same unit of measure. These worksheets explain how to work with different Imperial measurement units (feet, gallons, pounds) to perform multiplication. Students will convert between units, estimate the proper units to use, calculate fractional units, etc.