A tape measure can come in handy for home improvement projects, car repair, or to track how fast your children are growing.

and others with centering scales that show you the center point of any measurement. But we agree with Clement’s opinion: “A tape measure is a beautifully simple machine … and should not be ...

If the container is a square or rectangle, use the ruler or tape measure to find the length ... try Archimedes' problem (on a slightly smaller scale) by estimating the number of grains of sand ...