GCSE & iGCSE Converting Units worksheet

Converting units worksheet for GCSE and iGCSE maths: metric length, mass and capacity, area and volume units, and map scales. With full worked solutions.

A complete converting units worksheet for Pearson Edexcel GCSE (1MA1) and International GCSE (4MA1), written so one resource works for both tiers. Every section is clearly labelled Foundation or Higher, and questions get harder as you go.

What’s covered — Foundation

Converting metric units of length, mass and capacity
Converting units of area and volume, and volume to litres
Using map scales
Approximate imperial conversions

What’s covered — Higher (grades 6 to 9)

Converting rates
Finding real areas from a map scale
Writing conversions using algebra

How it’s structured

A. Worked examples & Your turn — a model solution beside a matching question to try
B. Fluency — core skills
C. Reasoning — explain it
D. Problem solving — unfamiliar, multi-step questions
E. Exam practice — exam-style questions with mark allocations

125 marks across Sections B to E (64 Foundation, 61 Higher), with a progress tracker on the front page so students can record their score per section. Area and volume conversions get real space here, since squaring and cubing the conversion factor is where most marks are dropped.

How to use it

Works as a full lesson, homework, a cover lesson or targeted intervention. Because each tier is labelled, you can set the Foundation sections to one group and the Higher sections to another from the same print.

What’s included

12-page worksheet (PDF, printable, with answer spaces)
6-page full worked solutions (PDF) — complete method for every question, not just final answers
Calculator allowed

Specification

Pearson Edexcel GCSE Mathematics (1MA1) and International GCSE Mathematics (4MA1), Ratio, Proportion and Rates of Change. All questions are original.