Estimating height and length

Estimating height and length

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Overview
Using this Resource
Connecting to the Curriculum
Marking Student Responses
This task is about estimating height and length.
In this activity you are going to estimate the height and length of some objects in and around your classroom.
A one metre ruler will be held beside each item.
You will need to make your best estimate (in metres). 

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a)  Estimate the height of a door:  metre/s

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e) Estimate the length of a piece of playground equipment: 

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c)  Estimate the height of a horse:  metre/s

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d) Estimate the height of a sheep:  metre/s
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e)  Estimate the length of the basketball court:  metre/s
Task administration: 
Equipment:
1 metre ruler.
  • This task can be completed with pen and paper or online (with NO auto marking - as marking needs to be determined by your measurements of the objects).
  • This task assesses students' ability to accurately estimate various heights and lengths.
  • As this is an estimation task students are not to use the ruler to measure the items.
  • This assessment task can be carried out with individual students, a pair of students working together, or a small group.
  • Prior to this activity measure the items listed below:
  1. Height of a door.
  2. Length of the netball court (or similar outdoor space).
  3. Height of a horse.
  4. Height of a sheep.
  5. Length of a piece of playground equipment.
  6. The metre ruler should be held by the teacher or another student during the activity.
Level:
3
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Geometry and Measurement, Measurement
Keywords: 
height, length, estimation
Description of task: 
Students estimate the height and length of various items around their school.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can help to identify students' understanding of a measurement sense and appropriate units of measurement for length for the Measurement objectives.
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: 

Scoring:

  

2 marks
or
1 mark

 a)

± 0.1 metre of measurement

± 0.2 metre of measurement

2 marks
or
1 mark

 b)

± 0.1 metre of measurement

± 0.2 metre of measurement

2 marks
or
1 mark

 c)

± 0.1 metre of measurement

± 0.2 metre of measurement

2 marks
or
1 mark

 d)

± 0.1 metre of measurement

± 0.2 metre of measurement

2 marks
or
1 mark

 e)

± 1 metre of measurement

± 2 metres of measurement
1 mark a)-
e)		 Correct unit of measure used throughout.