Kitchen Measurement Units: Cups, Ounces, Pints, Quarts and Grams

The units cooks use to measure ingredients, from both systems: the US customary units, cup, ounce, pint, quart and gallon, and the metric ones, gram and liter. Spoon stands for the tablespoon and the teaspoon of recipe books.

It is a good puzzle for a math lesson on conversions: 2 cups make a pint, 2 pints a quart and 4 quarts a gallon. Gram and quart read backwards.

Measuring Units Vocabulary: 8 Words to Find

Words run across, up and down; 5 of the 8 read backwards. The longest word is Gallon, with 6 letters.

Cup: A US unit of volume equal to 8 fluid ounces, about 240 ml.
Gallon: A US unit of volume equal to 4 quarts, about 3.8 liters.
Gram: A metric unit of mass. A teaspoon of sugar weighs about 4 grams.
Liter: A metric unit of volume, a little more than a US quart.
Ounce: A unit of weight, about 28 grams, or of volume, the fluid ounce.
Pint: A US unit of volume equal to 2 cups, about 473 ml.
Quart: A US unit of volume equal to 2 pints, about 946 ml.
Spoon: As in tablespoon (about 15 ml) and teaspoon (about 5 ml), the small units of recipe books.

How to Solve the Measuring Units Word Search

"Quart" has the only Q and reads backwards, as TRAUQ. "Gram" has the only M and also reads backwards. "Gallon" has a double L and reads normally across, like "liter".

Kitchen Math Activities With Measuring Cups

Fill a quart jug with cups of water and count how many it takes.
Sort the units into US and metric.
Double a simple recipe and work out the new amounts.