The Story of King Henry

• Once upon a time in a faraway land there lived a king who loved chocolate milk. His name was King Henry.

• Throughout his kingdom, King Henry made sure that all of the cows were fed great supplies of chocolate to continue to provide him with his beloved chocolate milk drink.

• King Henry drank chocolate milk with his breakfast. He drank chocolate milk with his lunch. He drank chocolate milk with his dinner. He even drank chocolate milk for his bedtime snack. King Henry drank chocolate milk by the liters!

King Henry was so obsessed with his chocolate milk that he wrote a decree making it illegal for anyone to drink chocolate milk, except for himself. King Henry’s wife was furious with his decision to create such a law so she grabbed her kids to go stay with her mother. The guards were upset with the King too, so they left the castle to find a new king to take care of.

Soon, King Henry was all alone….BUT, he had his chocolate milk. Depressed, he drank more chocolate milk than ever. And one evening, he overdosed on chocolate milk. His body couldn’t process all of the chocolate.

Sadly,

KING Henry died UNHAPPY drinking Chocolate Milk.

• King Henry died UNHAPPY Drinking chocolate milk.

• kilo hecto deka UNIT deci centi milli

However, the metric system remembers him every year when students learn math. His RIP statement is King Henry died unhappy drinking chocolate milk. This is how you remember the prefixes for metric measurement and how to order the units from greatest to smallest.

How does this help us???

• When converting metric units from one unit to another, you can use this simple phrase to keep you from making any mistakes.

• Ex.

• 45 cm = _______ m

• K H D U D C M Move the decimal 2

• spots to the left. 12

Answer .45

Together again.

• 8 km to ______cm

• K H D U D C M

1 2 3 4 5This will tell us the direction and How many places to move the decimal.

Answer: 800,000 meters

Your Turn

• Change 40 meters into kilometers.

• Move the decimal 3 to the left.

• Answer: .040

• 400 cm = ______ dkm

• K H D U D C M

• 3 decimal spots to the left.

• Answer: .400 dkm

Metric Conversion Mneumonic

• KKing (kkilo, 1,000)

• HHenry (hhecto, 100)

• DDied (ddeka, 10)

• UUnhappy (UUnit, 1 of measurement

• DDrinking (ddeci 1/10)

• CChocolate (ccenti 1/100)

• MMilk (mmilli, 1/1,000)

Remember King Henry

• Every time you need to convert metric units. It works like magic!!!! This is the one gift King Henry left behind for his people.

• King Henry Died Unhappy Drinking Chocolate Milk