❓ How do 1 cm and 1 m compare?

1 cm – about the length of a fingernail. 

1 m – the length of a meter stick (maybe shorter than your arm span).

And what about their areas?

1 cm² – the small square area that fits on your nail. 

1 m² – we taped newspaper pages together to show that much space!

📏 Length = how long

📰 Area = how much space it takes up