Thur 6th : Converting Miles to kilometres / kilometres to Miles and pounds to Kilograms / Kilograms to pounds

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Discover how top convert between metric and imperial units – Km to miles, miles to km and Kg to lbs and lbs to Kg

SUCCESS CRITERIA: You will be able to convert between kgs and lbs and between miles and Kms

STARTER: Using a calculator and the following rules convert these temperatures

To convert Centigrade to Fahrenheit you:     Multiply by 8, then divide by 5 and then add 32

To convert Fahrenheit to Centigrade you:     Subtract 32, Multiply by 5 then divide by 8

  
 

Use the rules above to convert these to centigrade

52°F

70°F

95°F

40°F

120°F

32°F

  
 

Convert these to Fahrenheit

15°C

23°C

6°C

40°C

2°C

-5°C

  
 

  
 

LESSON: Use this Mymaths Lesson to show conversion between Miles to Kilometres and Lbs to Kgs. Use the question screens to generate lots of different questions to provide lots of practice.

EXTENSION: Use table of page 435 of Text Book to answers Ex 20D page 436

PLENARY: Answers to questions as they work through them