Ruler Meter Stick Measurements

The smaller ticks on a metric ruler represent a millimeter.

Ruler meter stick measurements.

A ruler is shoter than a meter stick a typical ruler is 12 inches however there are many other measuring devices also called rulers. All of these are present on the meter stick essentially a giant ruler that is a little more than 3 feet long. A meter stick is a large ruler used for measuring size or distance using the metric scale. Those items are easily measured with a ruler.

An english ruler provides incremental measurements in inches with each inch further divided into smaller fractions. Some meter sticks also provide measurement increments in inches for comparison. Using a ruler metric measurements metric rulers have centimeter and millimeter markings. A meter stick is a little over 3 feet long because a meter is approximately 3 2 feet.

Inches on one side english ruler and centimeters on the other side metric ruler. The measurements provided on a meter stick are in centimeters 100 cm in a meter and millimeters 1 000 mm in a meter. Just like a ruler you can use the meter stick to read measurements on real life objects. For instances where a yard stick would be used for customary units a meter stick would be used to measure metric units.

A metric ruler is use to measure centimeter cm and millimeter mm the centimeter is a unit of length in the international system of units. A meter stick closely compares to a yard stick.