Measurement sense resources

Students calculate the area of three shapes with a grid in the background.

Students calculate the perimeter of a range of 2-dimensional shapes.

Students calculate the area of composite shapes.

Students calculate the area of a composite shape on a grid.

Students find the width and perimeter of three rectangles with the same area and different lengths.

In this practical task, students make different shapes with four multi-link cubes, draw them, identify the smallest perimeter, and explain what happens to the area.

Students identify which of four shapes created from equilateral triangles has the largest area and which has the largest perimeter.

Students answer two multiple-choice questions about the number of smaller blocks that fit into larger cuboid containers.

Students use the scaled plan of a property to calculate the area of the pool, house, and lawn.

This practical task requires you to estimate the dimensions of a room, then check with a metre ruler and calculate the volume of the room.

This practical task requires students to rank a series of animal pictures in order from shortest to tallest.

Student work out the side lengths and area of a tapa cloth from the measurement of a small section of it, converting between cm and metres.

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.

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

Students identify the approximate capacities of everyday containers.

Students calculate the volume and surface area of a cuboid box.

Students calculate the number of 2cm blocks fit into a given 3-dimensional block model, and answer questions about one face, and volume of the block model.

Students answer questions about perimeter and length of square and rectangle shapes.

Students order litre and millilitre capacities from smallest to largest, compare given capacities and explain how they know whether one is larger/smaller or the same.

In this practical task students design a net for a lidded cardboard cube to hold a tennis ball. They then cut out and construct the cube.

In this practical task students design a net for a lidded cardboard box to hold 3 "chocolate bars" represented by hundreds blocks. They then cut out and construct the box.