Different types of measurement

Different types of measurement

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This task involves different types of measurement including time and units of measuring.

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1.  How many hours are equal to 150 minutes?

    • 1 1⁄2

    • 2 1⁄4

    • 2 1⁄2

    • 3

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2.  The area of the triangle is

    • 6 square units.

    • 9 square units

    • 12 square units

    • 42 square units

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A triangle
 
3.  If the area of the shaded triangle shown here is 4 square centimetres, what is the area of the entire square?

    • 4 square centimetres

    • 8 square centimetres

    • 12 square centimetres

    • 16 square centimetres

    • Not sure

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square with one side labelled 3 centimetres
4.  What is the area of this square?  square centimetres

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5.  The time is 7:25 a.m. I take 15 minutes for breakfast, 3 minutes to get dressed and 8 minutes to get to school. What time do I get to school?  am.

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6.  Which unit would you use to measure the length of a pencil?

    • centimetres

    • metres

    • kilometres

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7.  About how far could you walk in one day?

    • centimetres

    • metres

    • kilometres

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8.  The height of a person is about?

    • 2 metres

    • 20 metres

    • 200 metres

    • 2000 metres

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9.  About how long is a bed?

    • 10 cm

    • 100 cm

    • 200 cm  

    • 500 cm

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10.  What is the most likely weight of a pencil?

    • 5 grams

    • 5 kilograms

    • 5 litres

    • 5 centimetres

Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pencil and paper or online with auto-marking. 
Level:
3
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Geometry and Measurement, Measurement
Keywords: 
nemp, area, units of measurement, time
Description of task: 
For this NEMP task students perform a range of practical measuring tasks including calculations involving time and selection of appropriate units of measuring.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Measurement sense, set 5
within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
  Y4 (10/1997) Y4 (10/2001)
1. C (2 1⁄2) 24% 30%
2. B (9 square units) 20% 23%
3. B (8 square centimetres) - 26%
4. 9 cm2
9 (with incorrect or no unit)		 -
-		 0%
3%
5. 7:51 21% 29%
6. A (centimetres) 84% 88%
7. C (kilometres) 69% 57%
8. A (2 metres) 2% 6%
9. C (200 cm) 29% 32%
10. A (5 grams) 57% 59%
Diagnostic and formative information: 
Some of these questions are NEMP trend items. They were trialled in both 1997 and 2001. The data for both years is included on the scoring page.