Measurement

In this section we’re looking at something you’re probably all familiar with: measurement.

In the first topics we looked at problem solving and programming – those topics will be relevant throughout the entire book (and we’ll keep coming back to them). However in this section we get to something a little more familiar as a mathematics topic: Measurement.

Learning outcomes

• Describe the metric system
• Convert units of measurement from one system to another (eg, metric and imperial systems)
• Express very large or very small numbers using scientific notation
• Convert numbers from the decimal system into other bases (eg, binary numbers).