I want to thank you so much, im 57 years old and never new how to read a ruler, I started scrapbooking and realized I needed to learn this basic concept. you're an excellent teacher and i can't thank you enough.
I'm 33, and I just started learning about the inch. My schools never taught me and my classmates about the inch measurements, only metrics and nothing else. I knew a bit of the other measurements besides metrics, such as the Imperial measurements through my old Oxford dictionaries and my New Book of Knowledge encyclopedia set.
im 15, never be too scared to ask. I didnt know how to properly fold an extension cord 2 days ago and now its the easiest thing cause i asked my father.
don’t be embarrassed to ever learn anything. I’m in my late 20s and math wasn’t ever my strongest subject. Just keep practicing and learning and anything is possible.
Jesus....I feel really dumb now. Like in the comments below me, I was always REALLY embarrassed to ask anyone for help using a ruler because it made me feel very stupid and ashamed that I never learned correctly when I was younger. So, this video has been a huge help!
I feel ya man:/ back in primary school when I didn't have an ounce of knowledge in mathematics,I had to ask the teacher to explain it infront of my classmates and it was so embarrassing and I felt ashamed of myself,eventually I got a really good grasp of maths and it's one of my best subjects now but the lesson I learned was that it doesn't matter what others think so long as you gain the required knowledge at the end.
This video helped me SOOO much...I’m in a vocational program at school and one of the main priorities in that class is to know how to measure..me along with a lot of other students didn’t know how to measure and read a ruler properly..I’m so glad I found this video!!
Thank you so much. Don't know why school never taught this as I was also embarrassed about how bad I am at measuring. I quilt so have always made pieces bigger and cut down but now I can really read my rulers. THANK YOU!!
Thank you so much! I am doing Woodworking this semester and one of the requirements was to know how to measure. I forgot how to measure but then this short video really helped! Thank you so much, this video is going to get me a n A+!
samw bruh 😂😂😂 teacher asked us to make cutting board and i had to cut multiple woods into strips that was in fractions so i needed to learn how to measure first
Bob all of your videos are awesome and laid out from the mind of a teacher. You obviously from one educator to another took into account how others would be viewing/thinking about the material you;re presenting. Thank you for all your hard work!
I learned to read in cm [since Im from Mexico] so they never taught us how to read the inches part of our rulers lol. I have been using 1/4 when measuring [some materials are measured in inches, like wood, since we live on the border with the USA], but always had problems understanding the smaller notches on the rulers and tapes [why some have less and others have more, for example]. This video has helped me a lot to understand it in my 45 years of life. Thank you!
I needed this in middle school... I was so lost and confused😵.. Untill my high school welding instructor made us physically measure plate steel of various thickness. I will NEVER FORGET you MR. McHenry!! 😎👍 🇺🇸 thanks for passing the Torch.!!
People dont think learning your measurements and mathematics isnt important, because if i would have taken mine more serious growing up, i would have had more opportunities for myself. So study hard, and thanks Weld for everything and being a really great teacher
Ever since I started getting into miniatures I've been struggling with measuring in inches, it's been a headache man, you finally helped me understand them. Thanks so much!!!
I am 35 & live alone. I'm trying to diy & install a proper fitting window bracket for an exhaust hose to a portable ac unit I bought online that arrived with a poorly fitted one. This video really helps me even though my measuring tape has 32 lines in between. But it did help give me the basic info to go from there. Thank you for the video.
i am 26 years old, been in the US since I was 17 and I was never able to understand the imperial system, now thanks to this video it became soo easy, thank you
31 and never really learned watched other videos and was still in dumb mode.. have an interview tomorrow need to know a ruler to get the job after watching this vid job is as good as mine....! Thank you!!!
I'm homeschooling my kids and was struggling to teach them how to read a ruler until I found your video. I put it on for them to watch a couple of times and they were able to learn in under 10 mins. THANK YOU!
No one ever taught how to read a ruler, I know now. They just kept saying it's easy to you maybe. This man just show me in 3 Mins what I didn't know for 50 plus years.
Thanks bro, I am Bachelor Mechanical engineering student but never used inches for measurements. So this video was totally a great help. Thanks again.❤❤❤
WOW!!! Where was this video in 1987 when I was failing math trying to read a ruler. Thanks! Who say you can't learn more past 40. Had the halves and quarters but beyond that, I would make it fit.
Thanks for this lesson! My new job requires this...I never thought I couldn't read a ruler until I got asked about it. Th its GREAT HELP!!!I'll watch this until it sticks!
This blew my mind. I’ve always just done my best to eyeball and estimate, based on the obvious markings (halves, quarters). But I hit a wall recently, needing to make a precise measurement to have something custom framed. This totally makes sense.
Math! That's why I did not learn to read a ruler. 67 years old, doing woodworking.. teacher was soooo frustrated by it. Your video helped a lot. I really like the test part. Would like to see more Tests and answers. That helped
Thank you Bob and Sparky for teaching me how to use the inches ruler. I have never used it before in my school life (always been using metric), but apparently I have to learn to use an inches ruler for Engineering workshop.
I started primary school in England, UK in the late 70's aged I guess 4 or 5 years old yet we weren't classed as Europe but I learnt in metric. Can remember being out in the playground with the red metre stick on a big wheel that made a click sound at every metre. I didn't learn feet and inches. So at high school everyone else seemed to already know feet and inches, but I didn't. I knew how to find 1ft 1ins 2ins 2ins and so on and halves of the inches. Like 6ft 1 1/2 ins, but no idea how to write the half as a number. And if it was one black line over the half black line or more that sends me into panic as I have no idea what that measurement would then be written in numbers. I know it would be 6ft 1ins and ?? 🤷♀️ I also have no idea about weights either if not in stones. So embarrassing. Just glad I can tell the time on a non digital clock. Many young people thesedays struggle with that.
35 years old and bout to build a house with my wife by hand and whilst drawing out the design to spec we realize we need to learn how to properly read a ruler. Stay humble people! Knowledge is Wisdom!
TheFactsAccordingToGabbie1791 It wasn't math or your teacher. It was you. It is just the time that you actually need this for use unlike before you just wanted to fool around.
I know this was made 7years ago but im so glad it was, i feel like i missed this back in school and anytime i wanted to measure something my answer was always wrong.
wow I wish I would have seen this 10 years ago 😂😂 google only confused me more but after watching this I understand how to read a ruler now so thank you so much for making this video!
Here I am 33 in 2023 and never actually learned how to read a ruler 🤦🏾all these years I would only use the half and whole numbers… it’s so simple. Thank you 🙏🏾
Mannnnn I never knew how to properly read a ruler... I’ll admit something. I always thought when someone said quarter after 5 for example, I thought that meant 5:25 but a quarter of 60 is 15... The point you made about reading the middle lines from one inch to another helped... just divide the two number by 2 and the bottom by two until the top is odd! Thank you!!
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my God !!!!!!! 59 and could only use whole numbers and halves on a ruler. I felt I must have dyslexia but 5 min. I got every problem right. Oh my GOD, had such a fear of measuring. Want to do some home projects. I am FREE!!!! Thank you, glad to see others on here with same problem.
This person is doing a service for the future of society,effective education especially in these woke, critical race theory, etc times, is very very important, So thank you for doing your part in pedagogy terms, You never forget a good teacher, Highest accolades for this and other teachers / lectures,
Thank you so much, you literally explain much clearer than my math teacher, he will just gonna yell at as without explaining clearly, by the way thank you so much❤❤😊😊
It’s so sad that a short video like this taught me so much where as the school system hardly taught this and took a whole year to not understand the ruler. I’ve been holding myself back from getting certain jobs. I feel much more confident now.
Thank u for making it simple I was working on rulers and u helped us learn fractions u came up on Google I looked up another video and she went on with yards liters and ALL OUTHER STUFF anyway I subbed to u keep up good work tysm thanksssss Bob
13 years old and canadian, knew how to read cm but looking at the inch ruler part when i got a math question asking to measure something in inches (using american books) really freaked me out, thanks for the help
I'm from the UK so we use the metric system and the imperial system but I only ever learned the metric system for Carpentry work so this video is very helpful
I never knew I would actually need to know fraction things before college (imma be an engineer) until I started a calendar project, I need to make squares for where all the days will be places (it’s one of those things that you can change the month and amount of days without a different board, but I’m not buying one, so I can design each date and month) but I need to cut a normal sized paper, into a smaller version of the big thing, so I can make the squares(31 total spaces) without having any extra eraser lines, I’m going from inches to centemeters, the length was 26 1/2 inches, so I did 26 1/2 centimeters on the model, but the width was 16 inches, but then it went 6 dashes further, so I needed to know what that would be called, so I could just look up what it would be in centimeters
Thank you so much that little trick that you included really helped me! I have a tech test Tomorrow on rulers and I’m 13 in 8th grade and I still don’t know how to read a ruler. Thanks again😀
I want to thank you so much, im 57 years old and never new how to read a ruler, I started scrapbooking and realized I needed to learn this basic concept. you're an excellent teacher and i can't thank you enough.
I’m 56 and just started learning!
I'm 33, and I just started learning about the inch. My schools never taught me and my classmates about the inch measurements, only metrics and nothing else.
I knew a bit of the other measurements besides metrics, such as the Imperial measurements through my old Oxford dictionaries and my New Book of Knowledge encyclopedia set.
thanks. 19 and never really learned how to measure and was always too embarressed to ask. this video finally helped me learn
Same I'm 12 I'm so embarrassed if someone ask me to measure this...ill be like oh...no... But still learning tho
Thanks for watching and I hope it helped.
im 15, never be too scared to ask. I didnt know how to properly fold an extension cord 2 days ago and now its the easiest thing cause i asked my father.
don’t be embarrassed to ever learn anything. I’m in my late 20s and math wasn’t ever my strongest subject. Just keep practicing and learning and anything is possible.
you shouldn't be embarrassed unless you're planning on measuring something embarrassing
Jesus....I feel really dumb now. Like in the comments below me, I was always REALLY embarrassed to ask anyone for help using a ruler because it made me feel very stupid and ashamed that I never learned correctly when I was younger. So, this video has been a huge help!
I feel ya man:/ back in primary school when I didn't have an ounce of knowledge in mathematics,I had to ask the teacher to explain it infront of my classmates and it was so embarrassing and I felt ashamed of myself,eventually I got a really good grasp of maths and it's one of my best subjects now but the lesson I learned was that it doesn't matter what others think so long as you gain the required knowledge at the end.
This video helped me SOOO much...I’m in a vocational program at school and one of the main priorities in that class is to know how to measure..me along with a lot of other students didn’t know how to measure and read a ruler properly..I’m so glad I found this video!!
Thank you so much. Don't know why school never taught this as I was also embarrassed about how bad I am at measuring. I quilt so have always made pieces bigger and cut down but now I can really read my rulers. THANK YOU!!
Thank you so much! I am doing Woodworking this semester and one of the requirements was to know how to measure. I forgot how to measure but then this short video really helped! Thank you so much, this video is going to get me a n A+!
I wish I could have taken woodworking in school!
Samee
samw bruh 😂😂😂 teacher asked us to make cutting board and i had to cut multiple woods into strips that was in fractions so i needed to learn how to measure first
@@sensei6368 shame you dont use millimetres instead its so much more simple, but i am from the uk
this is the teacher we needed but we dident ask
Didn't* Now go find a English teacher
Jk
@@Tray-v5u 😂🤣
@@Tray-v5u 😂🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣
tray. lol
Bob all of your videos are awesome and laid out from the mind of a teacher. You obviously from one educator to another took into account how others would be viewing/thinking about the material you;re presenting. Thank you for all your hard work!
I learned to read in cm [since Im from Mexico] so they never taught us how to read the inches part of our rulers lol. I have been using 1/4 when measuring [some materials are measured in inches, like wood, since we live on the border with the USA], but always had problems understanding the smaller notches on the rulers and tapes [why some have less and others have more, for example]. This video has helped me a lot to understand it in my 45 years of life. Thank you!
I needed this in middle school... I was so lost and confused😵.. Untill my high school welding instructor made us physically measure plate steel of various thickness. I will NEVER FORGET you MR. McHenry!! 😎👍 🇺🇸 thanks for passing the Torch.!!
Thank you Bob. I don't remember it being this easy in school. I appreciate you teaching an old new tricks
I wish I had known this way earlier in life, while I knew how to read some of the measurements, you explained it so easily! I get it now! Thank you!
Thank you!!!! I’m 43 and just now get it because of you. I’m favoriting this video and referring back to it and sharing it with my son.
People dont think learning your measurements and mathematics isnt important, because if i would have taken mine more serious growing up, i would have had more opportunities for myself. So study hard, and thanks Weld for everything and being a really great teacher
Ever since I started getting into miniatures I've been struggling with measuring in inches, it's been a headache man, you finally helped me understand them.
Thanks so much!!!
I am 35 & live alone. I'm trying to diy & install a proper fitting window bracket for an exhaust hose to a portable ac unit I bought online that arrived with a poorly fitted one. This video really helps me even though my measuring tape has 32 lines in between. But it did help give me the basic info to go from there. Thank you for the video.
THANK YOU! Super easy to understand, great visuals and to the point teaching.
i am 26 years old, been in the US since I was 17 and I was never able to understand the imperial system, now thanks to this video it became soo easy, thank you
Thanks for doing what you do! Youve certainly helped me make my life easier. Appreciate the easy breakdown of everything! Cheers
Glad it helped!
Thank you so much. I'm currently taking a woodworking class and I struggled with measuring but now I understand. THANKS!!!
I'm really glad it helped! Good luck with the woodworking.
RIGHT ME TOOOO
31 and never really learned watched other videos and was still in dumb mode.. have an interview tomorrow need to know a ruler to get the job after watching this vid job is as good as mine....! Thank you!!!
Same here/job interview tomorrow lol
Great lesson Bob. I'm doing my training in the carpentry trades and this video helped me how to read the tape measure better. Thanks!
I'm homeschooling my kids and was struggling to teach them how to read a ruler until I found your video. I put it on for them to watch a couple of times and they were able to learn in under 10 mins. THANK YOU!
Luvly975 that’s great!
Love your teachings on all ur videos, very detailed & the information is blasting off on to my notebooks!
No one ever taught how to read a ruler, I know now. They just kept saying it's easy to you maybe. This man just show me in 3 Mins what I didn't know for 50 plus years.
*Thank you for sharing and spending your time to help us. It is much appreciated!! Thank you kindly, LINDA (SWER-ZIN-SKEE) from NJ.* 😀💜😇🌷
Thanks for the kind words. I’m glad it was helpful!
Thank you for your time and effort on your videos...this girl definitely has found them very inviting and oh so informative
Thank you for this! I love it. You've given me some great ideas for tasks involving fractions and measurement.
This is an excellent explanation of how to use a tape measure. My students will benefit from this excellent video.
Dang I needed this teacher
aww. You are too kind. (and today I learned how close the "w" key is to the "s" key).
This still confusing 😭😭🤣☠️
Fr 😭
I was in class today feeling dumb as hell 😭
@rodrigocamacho1216 We were doing measurements in class and I've never felt so stupid😭 Literally searched up how to in class.
This is great - going to use this with my fifth graders as we prepare measurements for line plots. Thank you!
Thanks for saving me from humiliating myself!
😃 Never knew I needed you.
Thanks bro, I am Bachelor Mechanical engineering student but never used inches for measurements. So this video was totally a great help. Thanks again.❤❤❤
I am 65 and never learned this so I am so happy to find this video that I can understand.
This was fantastic! You are a great teacher. Please stay safe and kind. God bless
WOW!!! Where was this video in 1987 when I was failing math trying to read a ruler. Thanks! Who say you can't learn more past 40. Had the halves and quarters but beyond that, I would make it fit.
This is the best explanation I've seen since grade school. I went all thru school not knowing this. Thank you
Finally I understand the inches. Thank you teacher 💐💐👍🏻
Thanks for this lesson! My new job requires this...I never thought I couldn't read a ruler until I got asked about it. Th its GREAT HELP!!!I'll watch this until it sticks!
Hands down BEST explanation!!!
This blew my mind. I’ve always just done my best to eyeball and estimate, based on the obvious markings (halves, quarters). But I hit a wall recently, needing to make a precise measurement to have something custom framed. This totally makes sense.
Thank you! I am 50 but I just move from Europe to the USA and this system is completely new to me.
Math! That's why I did not learn to read a ruler. 67 years old, doing woodworking.. teacher was soooo frustrated by it. Your video helped a lot. I really like the test part. Would like to see more Tests and answers. That helped
Thank you Bob and Sparky for teaching me how to use the inches ruler. I have never used it before in my school life (always been using metric), but apparently I have to learn to use an inches ruler for Engineering workshop.
That's dumb.
@@odderlendsolvang3790 Eh, different parts of the world have different education systems
@@sayhan3631 hes right though, metric is better. i always measure in millimetres
Bob and Sparky - I love you guys!! This helped a great deal!!
That was the best explanation! Thanks. Now I understand the Imperial measure tape! :) . We, Europeans have the metrics system, but now I know both :)
I started primary school in England, UK in the late 70's aged I guess 4 or 5 years old yet we weren't classed as Europe but I learnt in metric. Can remember being out in the playground with the red metre stick on a big wheel that made a click sound at every metre. I didn't learn feet and inches. So at high school everyone else seemed to already know feet and inches, but I didn't. I knew how to find 1ft 1ins 2ins 2ins and so on and halves of the inches. Like 6ft 1 1/2 ins, but no idea how to write the half as a number. And if it was one black line over the half black line or more that sends me into panic as I have no idea what that measurement would then be written in numbers. I know it would be 6ft 1ins and ?? 🤷♀️
I also have no idea about weights either if not in stones. So embarrassing. Just glad I can tell the time on a non digital clock. Many young people thesedays struggle with that.
Thank you! (some math teachers need to watch this, not for learning math, but for learning how to better instruct/teach math!) Excellent video!
Better than my doctor explanation really my instructor was explaining in an advanced and hard way .
Guess what it wasn't the thing that I was looking for 🤧
Great! made this so easy! Good teacher, I love it when the explanation is simple.
35 years old and bout to build a house with my wife by hand and whilst drawing out the design to spec we realize we need to learn how to properly read a ruler. Stay humble people! Knowledge is Wisdom!
Dang I wish you were my math teacher my entire school life, maybe math wouldn't be my weak area. Haha i understand it more now thanks! ;)
Thanks! You can get better at math if you keep at it!
TheFactsAccordingToGabbie1791 It wasn't math or your teacher. It was you.
It is just the time that you actually need this for use unlike before you just wanted to fool around.
@@alonzomartii r u assuming that they were fooling around?
so helpful .i was so lost .u save me.thank u so much.keep on doing it.god bless..
Thanks a lot. The light bulb finally went off when i watched this.
You're welcome! Glad you got it, Marilyn.
Thanks, I'm not the smartest in the book and never payed attention for measuring so this really helped me out.
Thank you very much for simplify this for us. I am Brazilian and we use meters. Inches was always hard but now is much clear. have a good day
I know this was made 7years ago but im so glad it was, i feel like i missed this back in school and anytime i wanted to measure something my answer was always wrong.
This has helped me . Love studying at your channel.
Thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!
All the best
Yiannis (Athens Greece)
wow I wish I would have seen this 10 years ago 😂😂 google only confused me more but after watching this I understand how to read a ruler now so thank you so much for making this video!
use metric its so much more simple than inches. 1 cm equals 10 millimetres, so much better and accurate
Coming from Europe, I was asking myself, what an inch ruler looked like. Very interesting!
I wish America would switch to the metric system, a lot easier to understand.
Here I am 33 in 2023 and never actually learned how to read a ruler 🤦🏾all these years I would only use the half and whole numbers… it’s so simple. Thank you 🙏🏾
You are great in your teaching. So understandable 👏👏👏
Excellent explanation and illustration! Thank you! Very articulate! Refreshing!
I don't think I ever learned how to properly measure and I say that as a college student. Thank you so much!!!
I was brought up with metric measurements. Im 34 now and found out imperial isn't that difficult from this video. Thank you!
i wonder how easily you teaches, really helpful video for me
Mannnnn I never knew how to properly read a ruler... I’ll admit something. I always thought when someone said quarter after 5 for example, I thought that meant 5:25 but a quarter of 60 is 15... The point you made about reading the middle lines from one inch to another helped... just divide the two number by 2 and the bottom by two until the top is odd! Thank you!!
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my God !!!!!!! 59 and could only use whole numbers and halves on a ruler. I felt I must have dyslexia but 5 min. I got every problem right. Oh my GOD, had such a fear of measuring. Want to do some home projects. I am FREE!!!! Thank you, glad to see others on here with same problem.
God bless you for this video. Today I solved my greatest problem on reading measurement. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️Am happy
This person is doing a service for the future of society,effective education especially in these woke, critical race theory, etc times, is very very important,
So thank you for doing your part in pedagogy terms,
You never forget a good teacher,
Highest accolades for this and other teachers / lectures,
I got a pop quiz tomorrow and this helped me with my studies. Thanks a bunch!
Thank you so much, you literally explain much clearer than my math teacher, he will just gonna yell at as without explaining clearly, by the way thank you so much❤❤😊😊
Great video, i wish i watched it years ago. You see i live in metric part of the world but i watch a ton of american woodworking channels.
I needed this for a test. Ur a life saver 🙏
This is just a basic. But I realized after watching your video still we are far from basics. Still we have to learn a lot.
Thanks for your video.
This one has been brought meaningful months
I have an upcoming exam and I didn't know how to really read an inch ruler, this really helped. Thank you so much!!:D
thank you. I used to the metric system instead of imperial. So this was very helpful to me.
This helped immensely i have always struggled with fractions but this was super clear cut
It’s so sad that a short video like this taught me so much where as the school system hardly taught this and took a whole year to not understand the ruler. I’ve been holding myself back from getting certain jobs. I feel much more confident now.
I wish we switched to metric system. It's sooo much easier
I'm sixty and for the first time learned the proper way to read a ruler...thank you
That's great! Never stop learning!
I appreciate this! Starting a new job where I’ll need to use a ruler to measure things precise, 30 & didn’t have to use a ruler at all really.
Productive time money for sure productive videos like this is money
Thank u for making it simple I was working on rulers and u helped us learn fractions u came up on Google I looked up another video and she went on with yards liters and ALL OUTHER STUFF anyway I subbed to u keep up good work tysm thanksssss Bob
13 years old and canadian, knew how to read cm but looking at the inch ruler part when i got a math question asking to measure something in inches (using american books) really freaked me out, thanks for the help
I'm from the UK so we use the metric system and the imperial system but I only ever learned the metric system for Carpentry work so this video is very helpful
Thank you. Am old school. Can't work out metric measures. This helped a lot.. Much appreciated
I never knew I would actually need to know fraction things before college (imma be an engineer) until I started a calendar project, I need to make squares for where all the days will be places (it’s one of those things that you can change the month and amount of days without a different board, but I’m not buying one, so I can design each date and month) but I need to cut a normal sized paper, into a smaller version of the big thing, so I can make the squares(31 total spaces) without having any extra eraser lines, I’m going from inches to centemeters, the length was 26 1/2 inches, so I did 26 1/2 centimeters on the model, but the width was 16 inches, but then it went 6 dashes further, so I needed to know what that would be called, so I could just look up what it would be in centimeters
This video is so helpful! Saving for future reference. Thank you!
This makes measurements a lot easier that I thoght.THANK YOU😁😁
ha ha ha even though I got 1 out of three, still learn a lot today about measurements. This is good to know when shopping for wrenches and sockets.
Helped me a lot. Wish this was around when I was in school.
Glad it helped you, Andre! Thanks for letting us know.
Thank you so much. Your video was extremely helpful.
Awsome this teaching is so simply and easy
Very helpful and useful teaching. Thank you very much.
Thanks for clearing my doubt, I will use only meter scale from now.
Thank you so much that little trick that you included really helped me! I have a tech test Tomorrow on rulers and I’m 13 in 8th grade and I still don’t know how to read a ruler. Thanks again😀