Metric system?

Question

How can I learn how to covert the metric system faster and more simple.. I get confused on most parts but on the small parts I understand to a point.. Please if anyone can help me understand the metric system any better please help..

Answer 1

Go to Google and type:

convert 1 meter to feet

The result will be right on your screen. Check out this link as a sample:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=convert+1+meter+to+feet

Like a language, conversion and translation are difficult ways to really become fluent. It's better to immerse yourself in language or the system. To immerse yourself in the metric system start thinking in metric.

Don't worry about how many feet it is from one side of the room to the other -- measure it in meters. Find out how many centimeters tall you are. Find out how many centimeters it is from the tip of your pinkie finger to the tip of your thumb when your hand is spread wide. Find out how many kilometers it is to the grocery store, school, or work. How many kilograms do you weigh and how many can you lift. Pretty soon you'll have plenty of reference points to consider yourself fluent in the metric system.

And that fluency will in turn make it much easier to remember that there are 3.28 feet in a meter.

Answer 2

The metric system is based on the earth and easier to use than the conventional one. It is based on tens so all conversions in metric are either multiplying or dividing by 10 which is easy. You should not need to change from metric to conventional. Just measure in metric. 1 gram of water is 1 ml and has a density of 1g/ml

Answer 3

Okay. Here's a quick rundown.
There are three basic units in the metric system. The meter, the gram, and the liter.
The meter is length (like miles)
The gram is weight (like pounds)
The liter is volume (like pints)

From there it just gets easier.
To increase, you go to a decameter, which is ten times as long as a meter, a hectometer, which is ten times as long as a decameter, a kilometer, which is ten times as long as a decameter.
Are you with me?
Going the other way, to move to smaller units, a decimeter is one tenth of a meter, a centimeter is one thenth of a decimeter, and a millimeter is one tenth of a decimeter.

So here's the pyramid:
1 millimeter is 1/1000the of a meter)
1 centimeter is 1/100th of a meter)
1 decimeter is 1/10th of a meter)
1 meter is the starting point.
10 meters is one decameter
100 meters is a hectometer
1000 meters is a kilometer
To convert one metric unit to another, just move the decimal point. It's really an easy system once you get the hang of it.
Just remember that you can't convert grams to liters, or liters to meters, because that would be the same as trying to convert pounds to gallons or pints to yards.
Hope this helps.

The same progression holds true for the grams and the liters.Just replace 'meter' with 'gram' or 'liter' and you're in business!

Answer 4

Are you talking about Meter to Centimeters? You just multiply or divide by powers of ten....or move the decimal...or add zeros...
NOW if you are asking about converting standard to metric....get a chart. For a rough estimate just remember that a yard is roughly a meter.

Answer 5

It is pretty simple since everything is in units of 10. http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/sipm.html

Answer 6

Here's what you need to know:
--Everything is in tens
--Liter rhymes with Meter
--If you're in the US, you will never need to know this crap

Answer 7

This site will help:

http://www.metric-conversion-tables.com/metricconversiontables.htm

Answer 8

try this
http://www.visionlearning.com/library/module_viewer.php?mid=47