Year 5 Maths: Inches, Feet, Yards and Miles

Introduction to Measurements

Hello, Year 5! Today, we’re going to learn about some important ways to measure distance. We will talk about inches, feet, yards, and miles. These are all units of length.

What Are Inches, Feet, Yards, and Miles?

1. Inches:
   • Inches are small units of measure.
   • There are 12 inches in 1 foot.
   • Example: A pencil is about 7 inches long!
2. Feet:
   • Feet are larger than inches.
   • There are 3 feet in 1 yard.
   • Example: A door is usually about 6 feet tall!
3. Yards:
   • Yards are used for measuring longer distances.
   • There are 1,760 yards in 1 mile.
   • Example: A football field is about 100 yards long!
4. Miles:
   • Miles are used for very long distances.
   • Example: The distance from your house to your school might be about 1 mile!

Key Rules

• 1 foot = 12 inches
• 1 yard = 3 feet (or 36 inches)
• 1 mile = 1,760 yards (or 5,280 feet)

Tips and Tricks

• To remember how many inches are in a foot, think of a ruler. A standard ruler is 1 foot long, and it has 12 inches marked on it.
• To convert feet to yards, just divide by 3. If you have 6 feet, that’s 2 yards (because $$6 \div 3 = 2$$ ).
• To remember how many yards are in a mile, think about a football field. If a football field is 100 yards, it would take 17.6 football fields to make a mile (because $$1,760 \div 100 = 17.6$$ ).

Questions

Easy Level Questions

1. How many inches are in 1 foot?
2. If you have 2 feet, how many inches do you have?
3. What is longer, 1 foot or 10 inches?
4. How many feet are in 1 yard?
5. If a yard is 3 feet, what is 2 yards in feet?
6. How many yards are in 3 feet?
7. How many inches are in 2 feet?
8. Is 1 mile longer or shorter than 1 yard?
9. How many feet are in 2 miles?
10. What is 1 yard in inches?
11. If a pencil is 6 inches long, how many feet is that?
12. What is longer, 1 yard or 30 inches?
13. How many miles are in 10,560 yards?
14. If a dog is 2 feet long, how many inches is that?
15. How many inches are in 4 feet?
16. If a rope is 36 inches, how many yards is it?
17. If you walk 1 mile, how many feet do you walk?
18. How many yards are in 1 foot?
19. If you have 12 inches, how many feet do you have?
20. Which is longer, 1 mile or 1,000 yards?

Medium Level Questions

1. Convert 5 feet to inches.
2. How many inches are in 2.5 feet?
3. If a park is 1 mile long, how many yards is that?
4. How many feet are in 7 yards?
5. If a car travels 2 miles, how many yards does it travel?
6. Convert 36 inches to yards.
7. How many inches are in 6 yards?
8. If you have 48 inches, how many feet do you have?
9. How many miles are in 5280 feet?
10. Convert 9 yards to inches.
11. If a soccer field is 120 yards, how many feet is that?
12. How many yards are in 1,200 inches?
13. If you walk 3 miles, how many feet do you walk?
14. How many feet are in 2 miles and 2 yards?
15. If a piece of string is 7 feet long, how many inches is that?
16. How many miles are in 3,520 yards?
17. Convert 5 yards to feet.
18. If a swimming pool is 20 feet long, how many inches is that?
19. How many inches are in 1.5 feet?
20. If a train travels 1 mile, how many yards does it travel?

Hard Level Questions

1. How many yards are in 4 miles?
2. A garden is 5 yards long and 3 yards wide. What is the perimeter in feet?
3. Convert 10 miles to feet.
4. If a room is 10 feet by 12 feet, what is its area in square feet?
5. How many inches are in 9 miles?
6. If you have 144 inches, how many yards is that?
7. A football field is 100 yards long. How many feet is that?
8. How many miles are in 3,000 yards?
9. If a bicycle travels 2.5 miles, how many feet does it travel?
10. Convert 200 inches to yards.
11. If a snake is 5 feet long, how many inches is that?
12. How many feet are in 1.5 miles?
13. A track is 400 meters long. How many yards is that? (1 meter = 1.09361 yards)
14. If a tree is 60 inches tall, how many feet is that?
15. How many yards are in 5 miles?
16. If a rope is 8 feet long, how many inches is that?
17. Convert 15 yards to inches.
18. If a garden is 50 feet long, how many yards is that?
19. How many miles are in 10,000 feet?
20. If a person runs 2 yards every second for 5 minutes, how many miles do they run?

Answers

Easy Level Answers

1. 12 inches
2. 24 inches
3. 1 foot is longer.
4. 3 feet
5. 6 feet
6. 1 yard
7. 24 inches
8. Longer
9. 10,560 feet
10. 36 inches
11. 0.5 feet
12. 1 yard
13. 6 miles
14. 24 inches
15. 48 inches
16. 1 yard
17. 5,280 feet
18. 1/3 yard
19. 1 foot
20. 1 mile

Medium Level Answers

1. 60 inches
2. 30 inches
3. 1,760 yards
4. 21 feet
5. 3,520 yards
6. 1 yard
7. 72 inches
8. 4 feet
9. 1 mile
10. 108 inches
11. 360 feet
12. 10 yards
13. 15,840 feet
14. 84 feet
15. 84 inches
16. 2 miles
17. 5 feet
18. 240 inches
19. 1.25 miles
20. 5,280 feet

Hard Level Answers

1. 7,040 yards
2. 48 feet
3. 52,800 feet
4. 120 square feet
5. 14,592 inches
6. 4 yards
7. 300 feet
8. 1.7 miles
9. 13,200 feet
10. 5.8333 yards
11. 60 inches
12. 7,920 feet
13. Approximately 437.45 yards
14. 5 feet
15. 8,800 yards
16. 96 inches
17. 45 yards
18. 16.67 yards
19. 1.89 miles
20. 240 yards

I hope you enjoyed learning about inches, feet, yards, and miles! Keep practicing, and soon you’ll be a measuring expert!