Grade 6 Measurement Worksheets
Free printable measurement practice for Grade 6 students. Generate problems, solve them on screen or paper, and download as PDF.
Practice Worksheet
Grade 6 Measurement Practice
Solve each problem. Show your work.
- 1.Find the perimeter of a rectangle that is 15 cm long and 5 cm wide.
- 2.Find the area of a rectangle that is 9 cm long and 4 cm wide.
- 3.Find the volume of a rectangular prism with length 7 cm, width 7 cm, and height 9 cm.
- 4.Find the perimeter of a rectangle that is 13 cm long and 10 cm wide.
- 5.Find the area of a rectangle that is 10 cm long and 8 cm wide.
- 6.Find the volume of a rectangular prism with length 14 cm, width 6 cm, and height 3 cm.
Show answer key
- Question 1: 40 cm
- Question 2: 36 cm²
- Question 3: 441 cm³
- Question 4: 46 cm
- Question 5: 80 cm²
- Question 6: 252 cm³
Free Practice Worksheets
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Build confidence with approachable problems
Solve each problem. Take your time.
- 1.Calculate the area of a triangle with a base of 8 cm and a height of 5 cm. (Area = 1/2 × base × height)
- 2.Calculate the area of a parallelogram with a base of 10 cm and a height of 4 cm. (Area = base × height)
- 3.Convert 5 meters to centimeters. (1 meter = 100 centimeters)
- 4.Calculate the volume of a rectangular prism with length 3 cm, width 2 cm, and height 4 cm. (Volume = length × width × height)
- 5.Convert 4,000 meters to kilometers. (1,000 meters = 1 kilometer)
- 6.Calculate the area of a triangle with a base of 6 cm and a height of 7 cm.
A selection of topic skills
Solve each problem. Show your work.
- 1.Calculate the area of a triangle with a base of 12 cm and a height of 7 cm.
- 2.Convert 4.5 kilometers into meters. (Hint: 1 km = 1,000 m)
- 3.A parallelogram has a base of 15 inches and an area of 120 square inches. What is the height of the parallelogram?
- 4.Find the volume of a rectangular prism with a length of 8 cm, a width of 4 cm, and a height of 5 cm.
- 5.A gardener is building a rectangular garden bed that is 6 feet long and 4.5 feet wide. How much fencing is required to enclose the entire perimeter of the garden?
- 6.If a box has a volume of 200 cubic inches and the base area is 40 square inches, what is the height of the box?
What Your Child Will Learn
Grade 6 introduces surface area as the total area of all the faces of a three-dimensional object, extending students' work with area into three dimensions. Students unfold prisms into nets, calculate the area of each face, and add them together, then compare surface area to volume to understand that two shapes can hold the same amount but require different amounts of material to wrap.
Metric conversions become more rigorous, with students converting across multiple units in a single problem — for instance, from square centimetres to square metres — and applying proportional reasoning to unit relationships. Measurement is now embedded in real-world design and packaging problems, requiring students to combine area, surface area, and volume concepts with multiplicative reasoning to solve authentic, multi-step tasks.
Skills Covered
- Calculating surface area using nets of rectangular prisms
- Comparing surface area and volume of different solids
- Converting between metric units, including square and cubic units
- Applying proportional reasoning to unit conversions
- Solving design and packaging problems involving measurement
- Selecting the appropriate formula for area, surface area, or volume
Curriculum Aligned: Aligned with Strand E (Spatial Sense): determining the surface area and volume of three-dimensional figures and converting between metric measurement units.
Parent Tip: Have your child unfold an empty cereal box flat, trace its net, and calculate the surface area by hand — seeing the box 'open up' into flat rectangles makes the concept far less abstract.
What your child will practice
- Area of ShapesDetermine the area of parallelograms and trapezoids.
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What measurement skills should my child learn?
K-2: comparing lengths, telling time, counting money. Grades 3-4: standard units, perimeter, area. Grades 5-6: volume, unit conversions, and more complex measurements.
How can I practice measurement at home?
Cooking (measuring ingredients), building projects (measuring lengths), telling time, and handling money all reinforce measurement concepts naturally.
Does my child need to know both metric and imperial?
Most curricula focus on metric (meters, grams, liters) but familiarity with common imperial units (inches, pounds) is helpful for everyday life.