5th Grade Customary Unit Conversions worksheets

About this worksheet

Customary units are the ones a family uses every day without thinking about it: a recipe calls for cups and pints, a mail package is weighed in ounces and pounds, a road sign gives a distance in miles, and a chore takes so many minutes. This worksheet asks a fifth grader to convert within each of those groups: ounces and pounds; cups, pints, quarts, and gallons; inches, feet, yards, and miles; and hours and minutes. The key idea is that the amount being measured never changes, only the number describing it, and that number gets bigger when the unit is smaller and smaller when the unit is bigger.

A child who multiplies every time, even when moving to a larger unit, will get an answer many times too big. Questions here rotate between converting a larger unit down to a smaller one, converting a smaller unit back up to a larger one, comparing two measurements given in different units, and solving short word problems set in a kitchen, a garden, or on a trail. Every conversion here divides evenly, so a whole-number answer is a sign the work is on track.

What your child will learn

• Convert between ounces and pounds
• Convert between cups, pints, quarts, and gallons
• Convert between inches, feet, yards, and miles
• Convert between hours and minutes
• Compare two measurements given in different units