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Free Grade 3 Working with Compound Units Quizzes

Free Grade 3 quizzes for Working with Compound Units: 12 real questions with a full answer key and worked solutions. Metric units change by powers of 10: 10 mm in a cm, 100 cm in a m, 1000 m in a km. Multiply to convert to a smaller unit, divide to convert to a bigger one.

Price

Free

Difficulty

Foundation

Estimated time

35 min

Total marks

24

Learning objectives

Every objective is checkable, and each one maps to an activity and an assessment.

  • UnderstandExplain working with compound units

    Explain working with compound units accurately in a familiar context.

    Assessed by: Exit ticket of four short items

  • ApplyCalculate working with compound units

    Calculate working with compound units accurately in a familiar context.

    Assessed by: Exit ticket of four short items

  • AnalyseCompare working with compound units

    Compare working with compound units accurately in a familiar context.

    Assessed by: Exit ticket of four short items

  • EvaluateJustify working with compound units

    Justify working with compound units accurately in a familiar context.

    Assessed by: Exit ticket of four short items

Prerequisites

Close these gaps first — each has its own free lesson, worksheet and quiz.

How Working with Compound Units works

Metric units change by powers of 10: 10 mm in a cm, 100 cm in a m, 1000 m in a km. Multiply to convert to a smaller unit, divide to convert to a bigger one.

Key wordsmillimetrecentimetremetrekilogramlitreconvert

12 practice questions

Easy to hard, 24 marks in total. Try them first, then open the answers.

  1. 1.Convert 8 cm to mm.[1]
  2. 2.Convert 8 L to mL.[1]
  3. 3.Convert 3 L to mL.[1]
  4. 4.Convert 6 m to cm.[1]
  5. 5.Convert 2.2 L to mL.[2]
  6. 6.Convert 2.9 km to m.[2]
  7. 7.Convert 6 km to m.[2]
  8. 8.Convert 9.4 cm to mm.[2]
  9. 9.Convert 9.3 cm to mm.[3]
  10. 10.Convert 1.8 kg to g.[3]
  11. 11.Convert 8.7 km to m.[3]
  12. 12.Convert 6.8 m to cm.[3]
Show answers and working
  1. 1. 80 mm

    1 cm = 10 mm. 8 × 10 = 80 mm.

  2. 2. 8000 mL

    1 L = 1000 mL. 8 × 1000 = 8000 mL.

  3. 3. 3000 mL

    1 L = 1000 mL. 3 × 1000 = 3000 mL.

  4. 4. 600 cm

    1 m = 100 cm. 6 × 100 = 600 cm.

  5. 5. 2200 mL

    1 L = 1000 mL. 2.2 × 1000 = 2200 mL.

  6. 6. 2900 m

    1 km = 1000 m. 2.9 × 1000 = 2900 m.

  7. 7. 6000 m

    1 km = 1000 m. 6 × 1000 = 6000 m.

  8. 8. 94 mm

    1 cm = 10 mm. 9.4 × 10 = 94 mm.

  9. 9. 93 mm

    1 cm = 10 mm. 9.3 × 10 = 93 mm.

  10. 10. 1800 g

    1 kg = 1000 g. 1.8 × 1000 = 1800 g.

  11. 11. 8700 m

    1 km = 1000 m. 8.7 × 1000 = 8700 m.

  12. 12. 680 cm

    1 m = 100 cm. 6.8 × 100 = 680 cm.

Worked examples

Easy example

Convert 7 m to cm.

  1. 1 m = 100 cm.
  2. 7 × 100 = 700 cm.
  3. Answer: 700 cm
Medium example

Convert 4.1 m to cm.

  1. 1 m = 100 cm.
  2. 4.1 × 100 = 410 cm.
  3. Answer: 410 cm
Hard example

Convert 1.4 cm to mm.

  1. 1 cm = 10 mm.
  2. 1.4 × 10 = 14 mm.
  3. Answer: 14 mm

Interactive practice

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Common mistakes

What learners typically get wrong, and how to fix it.

  • Divides when converting to a smaller unit.

    Correction: Smaller units mean more of them — multiply.

  • Uses 100 for every conversion.

    Correction: Learn which pairs use 10, 100 or 1000.

Teacher tips

  • · Keep a conversion staircase on the wall.

Parent tips

  • · Weigh fruit at the shop and convert kg to g.

Real-life applications

  • · Cooking, measuring height, reading road signs.

Assessment objectives

How mastery is evidenced, and which standards it maps to.

FBISE FBI-334.1 — Mapped statement covering Working with Compound Units.COMMON-CORE COM-966.2 — Mapped statement covering Working with Compound Units.

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What should a learner already know before this?
Start with Introducing Compound Units, Converting Units. Each one has its own free lesson, worksheet and quiz.
How is the quiz sequenced?
Recognition first, then understanding, application, reasoning and finally mastery — the same ladder used across every free resource on the platform.
What comes next after Working with Compound Units?
Move on to Compound Units in Context, Metric Units, Imperial Units, Converting Units, which build directly on this idea.

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