metric conversions - shortcut method

briesibleyy Says:

Sep 27, 2011 - @EmericanMac lol wow. my school's method is: King Henry Died By Drinking Chocolate Milk. the B is the base.

DEEJAYlilJ Says:

Oct 10, 2011 - i get confusedmwhen it comes to mm to uand cm to mdm to cm

mimmyanny Says:

Oct 14, 2011 - 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

pete4765 Says:

Oct 18, 2011 - 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.

aatishhake Says:

Oct 19, 2011 - King Henry Drinks Lucky Dark Chocolate milk ..........

lvasqu86 Says:

Oct 19, 2011 - What a Life saver !! I have my midterm today and I know this will help me so much !!! Thank you !!!

motyyam Says:

Oct 21, 2011 - Thanhs a lot

sunshiineyday Says:

Nov 2, 2011 - omg thanks so much!!!!!!!!!!!(:

doubleRRify Says:

Nov 4, 2011 - Thank you very much!

Candymylife Says:

Nov 6, 2011 - What about hectare and cm squeared and those stuff?

robichaudd Says:

Nov 6, 2011 - @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.

TheSocder Says:

Nov 16, 2011 - really good method,

MegaMat84 Says:

Dec 3, 2011 - @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

michaeldonaldalker73 Says:

Dec 18, 2011 - How about just remembering what the words mean; like milli, 1000, centi, 100, deci, 10 etc.

11011zz11011 Says:

Jan 1, 2012 - Love It! Thanks:)

TheBlackeagle33 Says:

Jan 8, 2012 - 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.

dayseeuh Says:

Jan 19, 2012 - Great video but what about when you want to convert to cubic cenimeters?

grneydchyck Says:

Jan 19, 2012 - @briesibleyy When I was in school it was "King Henry Danced (merrily, lazily, gracefully) down center main"

robichaudd Says:

Jan 20, 2012 - @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.

prettygirljamie1 Says:

Jan 21, 2012 - love this! thx alot

CRYSTAL53221 Says:

Jan 24, 2012 - Thank you so much for posting!!! You saved me from failing my Biology test and maybe class and from a good cry!

AfonyaP Says:

Jan 28, 2012 - holy crap, thank you!!

TheTJPProductions Says:

Jan 30, 2012 - 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!

MsDiabla27 Says:

Jan 31, 2012 - thank you so muchhhhhh

BenOmarbaOmar Says:

Feb 1, 2012 - I don't like dark chocolate :D