Check your table. It should look like this:

Unit Symbol Equivalent in metres Fraction of a metre
metre m 1 one
decimetre dm 0.1 one tenth
centimetre cm 0.01 one hundreth
millimetre mm 0.001 one thousandth
micrometre mm 0.000 001 one millionth
nanometre nm 0.000 000 001 one thousand millionth

Well done!

How do we learn the contents of this table?

There are two key things to learn: 1) the unit names and 2) the fraction of a metre that each unit is.

Use these links to do this. Then return to this page.

How to learn the unit names

How to learn the sizes of each of the units

Use the scrap paper technique. Keep trying to generate the table without any prompts until you can reproduce all of it without mistakes!

Now find out how to be able to change from one of these units of measurement to another