Take a quiz to see how you do with measurements and their conversions. On the website Soft Schools, students can run through a "Fun With Measurements" quiz that will test their knowledge of time. For instance, students are asked to convert 15 hours into minutes. A multiple choice answer key lets them submit a choice and move on to the next question.
By fifth grade, students have begun to learn about measurements of mass, volume and temperature. The AAA Math website, for instance, offers several activities and games to help students study measurement in these areas as well as time and even the metric system. A temperature conversion game lets students pick a Fahrenheit temperature and, after learning the conversion chart, figure out its equivalent in Celsius, and check their answers. How many half-inches or eight-inches are in a yard? Students can take the test and compare their scores with each other.
The longtime favorite television game show Jeopardy can be applied to any school subject to make it more fun. Several school district websites list their own versions of the game, which can be printed out or run through the computer screen. For example, list subject categories such as time, metric and mass. Under each category, list several boxes with answers to questions pertaining to that subject. For the first square under "length," the players can answer "How many inches are in one yard?" when they see the answer box which reads "36 inches."
For another game to help students learn measurements, attack the problem by breaking it down into parts. Have students learn the area of a complex polygon by decomposing it into triangles and rectangles. Decompose irregular shapes to calculate their area, or break down a prism to determine its volume.