How to take reading from a ruler/scale?

If you want to take a reading from a ruler, you need to be sure if you will be taking the reading from an inch ruler or from a metric ruler. For an inch ruler, the common ones are those with 12 inches meaning you will see 12 bigger lines, and each line represents an inch.

Starting from zero to the twelfth inch, there are 15 smaller lines or marks between each inch, but there will be a total of 16 marks for each inch if you decide to add the bigger line representing each inch. Whenever you want to measure anything with your inch ruler, always read from left to right. Say you want to measure a stick, place the tip of one end directly on the first longest line from the left, i.e.,

on zero, and check the reading from the other end. If it falls directly on another long line with number 6, then the stick is 6 inches long. You also need to know how to determine the half-inch of every inch. The half-inch is the middle line that divides each inch into two equal halves.

There are different items that you can use when you want to measure different objects. One of these objects is the scale, also known as the architectural ruler. The main goal of this is to find the actual dimensions of the object or the scaled drawing that you are checking.

These are some of the things that you can do:

a. Read the number of the scale that is close to the ending scale of what you are trying to measure.

b. The number that you will get will tell you the whole feet of what you are trying to measure.

c. Slide the ruler so that you will see the fractional part of what you are trying to measure.

For some, reading a ruler can be quite confusing. This is because there are several types of lines on a ruler that can be read. When it comes to reading an inch ruler, the user should know that there are 12 lines on the ruler. Each line represents an inch.

It starts at 1 and continues until the ruler is full and reaches the number 12. In between each of the lines on the ruler are smaller lines. The line directly in between two lines is a half mark. For example, the mark between 1 in and 2 inches is 1 1/2 inch.

Taking a reading from a ruler is quite easy; you don’t have to worry, especially when you know the type of ruler you are using. There are mainly two types of rulers which are the inch ruler and the metric ruler. On the inch ruler, you will have a least 12 big numbers on them while on the metric ruler, you will have a least 30 big numbers on them.

When you measure from an inch ruler, learn the inch marks because the inch ruler has up to 12 marks and also learn the1/2-inch mark, the 1/2marks is the second longest line on the ruler. Next, you have to know the1/4 of an inch mark; the ¼ is a smaller line, which is halfway in between each ½ inch line. You also have to learn the 1/8-inch line, which are the smaller marks found directly between the ¼ inch marks. And lastly, for inch reading, learn 1/16-inch reading.

In a metric reading, first, get your metric ruler, learn all your centimeters marks and practice the1/2centimeter marks and also learn millimeter marks.