metric conversions - shortcut method

[FLORIDAFINEST100]

This was really helpful. thank you!!

[FLORIDAFINEST100]

thank you so much. I have a bio lab practical on monday. this was really helpful.

[pabloko2007]

MEGA ANG MICRO?

[pabloko2007]

wat about tonnes? thanx by the way

[ReidarTributeBrenna]

BTW: Countries that use the metric system don't use Kilo, Hecto or Deka for liters.

[BenOmarbaOmar]

I don't like dark chocolate :D

[MsDiabla27]

thank you so muchhhhhh

[TheTJPProductions]

thank you this is a very good video, thanks very much, I am going to use this method for my maths test tomorrow and im sure it will help, I wasn't able to convert before but now I can!

[AfonyaP]

holy crap, thank you!!

[CRYSTAL53221]

Thank you so much for posting!!! You saved me from failing my Biology test and maybe class and from a good cry!

[prettygirljamie1]

love this! thx alot

[dayseeuh]

Great video but what about when you want to convert to cubic cenimeters?

[robichaudd]

@dayseeuh You'll want to use the unit fraction method for those types of problems. Search the uploads at my channel for "metric conversions - unit fraction method." Follow that approach, except cube the entire unit fraction (or square it, depending on the unit your trying to get rid of). For example, 9cm^3*(1m/100cm)^3=0.000009m^3­­. Always put the unit you're trying to cancel out in the denominator of the unit fraction.

[TheBlackeagle33]

There are no words how to thank you for helping me, I been struggling with conversions for the longest, this month I'm taking Pharmacology classes and I have hard time with numbers and conversions. Thanks to you i feel comfortable for my tests.

Regard.

[11011zz11011]

Love It! Thanks:)

[michaeldonaldalker73]

How about just remembering what the words mean; like milli, 1000, centi, 100, deci, 10 etc.

[TheSocder]

really good method,

[Candymylife]

What about hectare and cm squeared and those stuff?

[robichaudd]

@Candymylife You're better of using the unit fraction method if squares and other powers are involved. See the "metrics conversions - unit fraction" method at my channel for a brief video on that method.

[doubleRRify]

Thank you very much!

[sunshiineyday]

omg thanks so much!!!!!!!!!!!(:



[motyyam]

Thanhs a lot

[lvasqu86]

What a Life saver !! I have my midterm today and I know this will help me so much !!! Thank you !!!

[aatishhake]

King Henry Drinks Lucky Dark Chocolate milk ..........

[pete4765]

And it gets even better when doing engineering where some things are large and some small. Off the top my head i know: atto-, femto-, pico-, nano-, micro- ,milli-,... ,kilo-, mega-, giga-, tera- and peta-. That's 33 orders of magnitude i can represent by adding a prefix to any unit. Try that with your inches, feet and miles. Actually, don't, you'll go crazy.

[mimmyanny]

If they tried to explain this to me when I was in public school, I probably would not get it. Thanks for uploading this to my favourite website. It helped me not lose attention and also helped me to understand better. Thank you so FREAKING MUCH! lol

[DEEJAYlilJ]

i get confusedmwhen it comes to mm to u

and cm to m

dm to cm

[kwekusan]

i would like to thank you for helping me i was studying all day at home for about and hour trying to figure it out .

as i grew tired of not understanding this i searched on youtube thanks a lot ^.^ now i know what to do in class

[EmericanMac]

my chem teacher told us to use King Henry Died Doing Crystal Meth

[briesibleyy]

@EmericanMac lol wow. my school's method is: King Henry Died By Drinking Chocolate Milk.

the B is the base.

[grneydchyck]

@briesibleyy When I was in school it was "King Henry Danced (merrily, lazily, gracefully) down center main"

[Hantarrrrr]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I have always had trouble with metric conversions and this really cleared everything up for me! I'm in grade 11 and I didn't really get metric conversions until I watched this. This was so helpful, I think you saved me from physics. AWESOME VIDEO!

[Johawk508]

I'm an 8th grader and had no idea what the hell this meant, know I know

[NASHEEDLOVER1000]

wow, thank you so much. i dont know why cant teacher teacher like you in school. your great keep up the good work.

[brownsugarglamour]

honestly, you just saved me, i was going to have to stay after because the last two test that i took on conversions, were 70 and 30, hopefully now i will do better. thank you SO much!!

[jordanluver17]

u definatly saved me from chemistry!!! thank you so much!!

except for some reason my teacher wants us to do it the long way, like where u cancel out stuff becuz he said, once u get into harder problems u cant do it this way but im not sure if its true lol

[robichaudd]

@jordanluver17 Yes, your teacher is correct. It's definitely important to know the longer method too ... it's much more versatile. When you get a chance, go to my channel and watch "metric conversions - unit fraction method" for a quick lesson on the longer method.

[jordanluver17]

@robichaudd oh ok thanks.

wait so ur saying i should move the decimal points just for easy problems? but like longer ones i should use the longer way?

i was wondering how do u convert 15 cm= __ km? im kind of stuck on it becuz im not sure how to move the decimals

[robichaudd]

@jordanluver17 When you're working in the metrics system, you can use this shortcut. But for other types of conversions you have to use a different method, like the unit fraction method.

[MegaMat84]

@jordanluver17

U can use the same system as presented on this video. Distance between kilo and centi is 5 decimal points.So 15 cm = 0.00015 km.

Regards

[jeJandE]

In 8th grade we use

Kids have dunked (many, giant or little) donuts causing messes.

[TOXICCisadope1zrep]

I dont THink king james was drinking chocolate milk

[TOXICCisadope1zrep]

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[PeytonLewisG]

Taking chemistry in college is effing hard but this makes me feel more comfortable!!!

[9ira4]

Great video!!

[RuthhAshtynn]

haha we use this in our school. but the king henry thing is diffrent

[oliviawan1992]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!

I finally get it...

[bowchikawoooooooooah]

omg thank you so much i was having trouble in physical science my teacher explained it horrible

[alisunsunshine]

to memorize the number line we learned king henry died bravely (basic unit) drinking chocolate milk

[V23Karting]

THANKS! I have a science test today and so far this has helped a lot.

[lajaylaville1]

hey

[SoshiStruck]

what if the unit i have is not on the line for example im trying to convert 750mm-->ft how do i do it??

[DJtralala13]

how about kg to lbs. ?????

[DJtralala13]

is it possible to have "g" to "ml" ?

[cena54john1]

This helped me with my homework :D

[djbex77]

Thank you for posting this. Very helpful & much needed. :)

[elmeeone]

thank you very much... my instructor explained it a way in which left me confused

you have just fixed that problem for me..

[bshah28]

I LOVE YOU...THANK YOU. can you PLEASE do a video on the nano, pico, tera mega and rest of those PLEASEEEE. this was so helpful to me i finally get it, but it would be great if you could help me with the other ones too. thank you again!

[ZenekLopata4]

Wow if u came up with this yourself that's pretty impressive. Thanx

[robichaudd]

@ZenekLopata4 I heard about it from another teacher at school and thought my students would like it. Glad you found it helpful!

[FierceInTraining]

Great video!

[krsdanie]

BLESS YOU !!!! LITERALLY !!!!

[salehalaseri2008]

Great video thank you very very much . this helped me a lot.

[beltrando]

This is by far the best explanation in all the other videos about metric.

Thanks very much

[ThunderstarNindou]

I have a question. Like problems with Volume and Areas, how do you do them. Like 165 cm to the third power = ?in tho the third power.

[robichaudd]

@ThunderstarNindou You'll want to use the unit fraction method for those types of problems. Search the uploads at my channel for "metric conversions - unit fraction method." Follow that approach, except cube the entire unit fraction (or square it, depending on the unit your trying to get rid of). For example, 9cm^3*(1m/100cm)^3=0.000009m^3­. Always put the unit you're trying to cancel out in the denominator of the unit fraction.

[tomte47]

@ThunderstarNindou

With 1 dimension (lenght) you move the decimal 1 step for each jump 2 cm = 0.2 dm = 0.02 m etc

with 2 dimensions (area) you move the decimal 2 steps for each jump 2 cm^2 = 0.02dm^2 = 0.00002 m^2 etc

With 3 dimensions (volume) you move the decimal 3 steps for each jump 2cm^3 = 0.0002dm^2 = 0.0000002 m^3

If you are using a calculator just multiply/divide by

10 for length

100 for area

1000 for volume

for example 165 cm^3 into m^3 would be 165/1000/1000 = 0.000165 m^3

[TiteNYC]

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[thefitzthewitz]

It's such a shame that the United States hasn't switched over to the Metric System yet. It's so simple. I mean for crying out loud, if you seriously think using the metric system is more difficult than the Imperial system, then something is wrong with you :P

[metalheadgymrat]

thank u.ive been trying to remember this,ur video made it impossible to forget

[8951519]

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[jenvas1990]

you made life so easy thank you very much I wish you where my teacher ;D

[glowingdarkmatter25]

what a relief...this helped.

[pinpanXXI]

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[NeilStinsonMusic]

Thank you!!! 

[jojoo1396]

<3 thank you!!!!

[kristielane2577]

What about other conversions I am taking physics and I dont understand conversions.

[robichaudd]

@kristielane2577 Try googling "unit conversions physics." I did a quick search and found this website: physics247 . com. There were plenty of other links to check out too.

[mdma4life]

@kristielane2577

If your perhaps referring to units smaller then milli, they go micro, nano, pico

This model is great to learn, but once u start applying, eg. in physics, you start using actual numbers.

Eg. when he/she says '1 place' that means 10 '2 places' is 100 (which is the same as 10^2) '3 places' 1000.(same as 10^3)

3 places is key because most physics quantities are measured in 1000 (10^3) intervals, eg. g, mg, ug, ng,. pg

(hecta, deka, deci are not typically used in science)

[mdma4life]

@kristielane2577

One other thing, you will find in physics it becomes a lot ... easier to approach when you attack the problem with the idea of cancelling out the units until you are left with the unit for whatever quantity you are looking for.

I say this cuz if you consider 1g = 10^-3 mg = 10^-6 ug = 10^-9 , when you are working out the units in your physics u need to cancel, eg 1 mg/ug, u can see this value on the fly with basic exponent math (10^-3/10^-6) = 10^3 (1000), no need for a chart

[mdma4life]

@kristielane2577

Sorry for third post, just math ad 500 character limits don't mix

Just wanted to say, everything I just said probably sounds wildly more difficult then this video, but this video is a (VERY GOOD) model for showing metric to beginners. Once you understand this you don't do this move to the right/left of decimal thing.

When you start applying, ESPECIALLY in physics, you will be confronted with MANY units conversions, which can be dealt very simply with by the 10^-3 etc stuff

[alissitz]

Used this tonight with my kids home work. Nice! Thanks

[chaosteam53]

Dam you metric Dam you

[reduce11]

Great!

[iancucornel]

1 meter = 100 centimeter

1 kilometer = 1000 meters

SO EASY. i don't get it why you americans don't change to metric system

[iLadyLaraCroft]

@iancucornel I totallly agree ! our system is sooo inconvenient :P

[SuperWebbyKinz]

Omg I had a test on this and I was so confuesed and now I so get it. You are an awesome tutor. THANK YOU

[juliadesl]

Thank you so much. You made it very easy

[Ashbury2193]

This explanation is too complicated. In Australia no-one bothers with deca and deci.

[MrMiller84]

thumbs up if u have mr b

[link2lonk]

ok I'm not smarter than a fifth grader - my 5th greater brought home metric conversion problems without the text book and I couldn't remember how to do it!!! Is it cheating to teach him this way of figuring out coversion??? Ie. if you don't learn to add you can't later multiply?

[robichaudd]

@link2lonk Check out the "metric conversions - unit fraction method" too. The unit fraction method is more general and works for any type of unit conversions.

[Realitywillcrumble]

Thank you so much, this is so much easier to understand now :))

[bad1dude]

Omg Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks !!!!! KING HENRY DRINKS UCKY DARK CHOCOLATE MILK , that helped me alot <3 . Thank you .

[mrguardare]

Thank you!!!

[akashanabanana]

OMG THIS REALLY HELPED ME. I've failed like all of my metric conversions test, I have one tommorow, and I have to tell you that you've really helped me! thank you!!!

[latroubles1986]

omg thank you so much .... god bless you for helping others

[893160007]

thats how they teach it

[DarkSphinxx]

Excellent, thanks

[lobeel1]

Beautiful! Thank You!

[TacoWorldTV]

i hate the metric system cause i failed a test on matter because they had metric conversions on it wich i suck at and i remember it by king henery died by drinking chocolate milk

[lostinozfan36]

OMG this helped me so much! Since I have a Physics test tomorrow.

[Commander359]

thank you sooooooooo beeping much!!!!!!!!!!:)



[xXAnthony619Xx]

Thank you so much! I'm glad there are people like you that take the time to make these mini math lectures for quick reference. Thanks a lot!

[ooberjoe]

you just helped me understand something that my teacher could not get me to understand lol. thanks for the help. :D

[Grrreg23]

goodness this helped alot more then my science book. thank you!

[RandomLinda14]

This helped a little but what about converting pounds to grams or quarts to liters?

[TheMangalover12]

YOUR A MASSIVE GENIOUS!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

[RedWOLF4Life96]

on my homework I hav 100 cl= ___ L how do you convert cl?

[ItsAmayyx]

god bless you!

[delita24]

thank you soo much!! this really helps!

[bentendods]

thank you my ap chemistry teacher expected everyone to know this and i had no clue what it was

[TheIncarnus]

oh god this saved me, i seriously thank you for this i was stuck on this for like 30 min at home and saw this video. i really am glad there are people like you to help us in school.

[realAarongFromThe403]

helpful 

[kimmylizzyandmom]

Thank you for helping me with this math!!

[herosvsharlots]

This was very helpful! Thank you for posting

[alwayzsmilin21]

it really helped me in my work

[PakistanRulz1]

Such a shortcut! Thank-you!

[igore234]

i dont understand how it is so hard, i have grown up with this system though but we were just taught there is 100 cm in a metre 10 mm in a cm and so on. alot easier than this method. 1 litre has 1000 ml, 1000 grams in a kg and so on. so when in the video it asks you for 15 L to ml its just 15000ml. oh and also have never seen deci before. Decimetre, never heard of it. just 10 cm

[habu220]

I use this video in my highschool science as a review.

[Naudz]

The way I was taught was from right to left remember:

Milli cent deci to the store (m, g, and L) then deca and hecta got kilo-ed

[daniellejudith]

good job. i remember it as KIDS HAVE DROPPED UNBELIEVABLY(UNDER OR WHATEVER WORD THAT STARTS WITH U) DEAD CALCULATING METRICS;msgeminigal, after mili, comes micro. after micro comes nano so it would look like this KILO, HECTO, DEKA, UNIT, DECI, CENTI, MILI, MICRO, NANO

[Doesthefatladysing]

I am soo elated, thanks a kilo!!!

[Pinkpixie54]

thx i was crying because i coudnt get it thx a lort bye next time i ll know where to go if i neeed help with math

[lurleeloola]

awesome! thanks so much for this.

[tutor5557]

THANK YOU

[uglydollipod]

This is what makes the internet so great - Thanks so much

[joyfulhair]

God bless you...you made it so simple and now I understand the metric shortcut...Thank you again!

[MissyEmma11]

thank you for the help

[TheJameelahmad]

miss u made it so easy

my teacher told me several times and i still didnt get it but now i got it thankx to u

many thnx

[sandra44035]

I got it, I actually got it. Save for my chemistry class. Thank you!

[captionbee]

Fantastic!!

[Collegebound0587]

she rocks........ !!!!! more examples

[momthanks]

this was very helpful, Thanks

[hoessucknuts]

I luv this lady...thank you for the help

[fruchtert]

you're awesome thanks!!

[arwdrummer]

Thank you! this is very helpful. I wish I had a teacher like you!!!

[mdjk89]

omg you are SOOOOO HELPFUL THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

[msgeminigal]

Great video. What if I need to convert nano meters?

[robichaudd]

To convert nanometers you're better off using the unit fraction method. Go to my channel and search the uploaded videos for "metric conversions - unit fraction method". Use that process with the relationship 1 nanometer = 1.0x10^-9 meter.

[Sicklehead88]

@msgeminigal you always just have to know, how many zeros you need. 1000 nanometers are 1 micrometer. so 1 nanometer is 0.001 micrometers. 1000 micrometers are 1 millimeter. so 1 nanometer is 0.000001 millimeters. 1 meter is 1000 millimeters, that means 1 nanometer is 0.000000001 meters. is the metric system really that hard for people that don't use it that often? (that a serious question, don't wanna mock anyone that has trouble with it)

[cutefiju]

@Sicklehead88 Its not that its hard or anything, Its just hard for some people (like me) to grasp the concept because we aren't taught from the beginning.

[TheMangalover12]

@cutefiju Exactly!!! :D

[heromiles]

@msgeminigal

It is simple. Just remember:

1. nano is small, therefore it will be on the right side of the scale

2. nano is nine units to the right.

3. Therefore a nanometer is 1, 000, 000, 000 meters.

4. Forget fractional methods and such. This method is dummy proof.

[kingbishop85]

Thanks so much! I am so horrible in math and I completly freeze. Your explanation made it so simple and easy to"get" Can you teach me dimensional analysis? I am doing this now in chem and once again I am freaking out...

[robichaudd]

Check out my other metric conversion video using the unit fraction method, it might help. If not, keep searching youtube...

[aw197272]

deca- Is an unofficial spelling for deka, so the spelling, deka is also right....

[aruytpadyugf]

I love the fact that this is extremly helpful, but maybe next time you what to spell "deca" correctly.

[sofrito34]

You are fabulous, thank you sooooooo much for this. I am practicing for my teas test and this will help me so much.

[kalmutiri]

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[ZerqTM]

I hope the use can can one day get over itself and just adopt the metric system live everyone else.

We did it in sweden and it was a pain in the ass for about one generation then it was all perfect.

I mean all scientific formulas are based on metric units so you have to learn to use it anyway.

[MULTOBEM]

gracias muchas gracias, muy bien explicado

[injookim]

Thanks, it made easy enough for my son to understand it...

[tr7027]

your're a genious!!!!!!!! thank you, thank you

one question does this work when I convert from kilo to centi??

[robichaudd]

yes, it works for converting between any prefixes

[mapexdrumming21]

no offense, boy or girl?

[robichaudd]

girl

[mapexdrumming21]

ok. lol

[u1love1]

thx thx thx alot

u made me understand wat is metric prefixes

[DARLING2616]

:) THANKS :)

[truthseeker1971]

This is absolutely brilliant!

[roseanne521]

this is great, thank you

[BrazilRulez93]

what happens if you have like 1,000

do u start from the end ? b/c i had to move it three places and i started from the end & i got the same answer... someone help?

[robichaudd]

Yes, start from the end. If the decimal isn't shown, like in 1000, it's implicitly at the end, 1000.

[SawWeasel]

thanks, this video really helped!

[zachattack1994]

What if you wanted to convert 20 milli to Kilo? by the way this is a really great video thanks.

[robichaudd]

First look at the shortcut line. Start at what you're given, milli. To get to kilo you have to go 6 steps to the left, so do the same with the decimal point on 20 milli:

20. milli -> .000020 kilo

[luxkast]

this is great!!!!!

[crsvcrsvstrght]

Awesome. I was feeling helpless at converting but this helped me a lot. Thank you so much!

[gigglysmiles17]

thx

[SinginChiquita]

thank you so much!! :)

[Pukuk]

tnx! that helps!

[TheJediDawg]

Thank you so much! I have a test over this thursday. And I had to stay in a 65 min science to try to understand this, but in this 4 min video, I understand it completely! Thank you so much! <3

[200240026]

thankz...i got a quiz 2morrow...and now i got nothin to worry 'bout!!!

[elenachg]

how can we convert it with scientific notation? like 10g to microg it is 10 x 10(-6) or 10(+6) Im confused with this T.T Cuz micro is 10(-6) but sometime the teacher put 10(+6).