Measurement sense resources

Students use a diagram of, and information about a measuring cup (a cone) to calculate and answer questions about volume.

Students answer questions about a ball travelling a number of full circles in a game of swing ball.

Students calculate the volume of blocks in a cylinder, the cylinder and the space around the blocks.

Students use known diameters of tins to work out the floor area of a carton and a given number of tins.

Students calculate the area of a block of land and calculate a width given the area. The questions also involve working with hectares.

Students read scales from pictures of everyday measuring equipment.

Students convert units of weight - milligram, gram, kilogram, and tonne, in order to answer questions about potatoes.

In this practical task, students cut out shapes and combine them to make a shape with the largest perimeter, and calculate the perimeter and area.

In this practical task, students estimate how many multi-link blocks equal the length of two common classroom items. They then check their estimate with the blocks, then measure with a ruler.

Students use diagrams of two boxes with given dimensions to calculate the volume of both boxes and the number of smaller boxes that could fit into one of the boxes.

For this NEMP task students perform a range of practical measuring tasks including calculations involving time and selection of appropriate units of measuring.

Students calculate or estimate the area for each of three shapes on a grid.

Students identify the correct unit of measurement that would be used for the weight or length of a range of everyday objects.

For this NEMP task students perform calculations related to birth dates; and solve measurement problems which involve temperature, area and perimeter.

Students identify how many unit squares cover given 2-dimensional shapes.

Students calculate the area and perimeter of four shapes on a grid.

Students convert the millimetre dimensions of a door to metres and centimetres.

This task requires students to rank a series of pictures in order from heaviest to lightest.

Students calculate the areas of four composite shapes.

Students use a scale map to estimate the area of Antarctica and explain their method.

Students enlarge a shape on a grid and explore the relationship between scale factor and area.

Students calculate the area of lawn, deck, house, patio, pool drive and garden of a section.

Students use the measurements of a swimming pool and surrounding area to calculate perimeter, area and quantity of tiles needed for the surrounds.

Students convert between millilitres, litres, pints and gallons, and kilometres and miles.

Students read scales from pictures of everyday measuring equipment.