Sorting weights

Sorting weights

Auto-markingPencil and paperOnline interactive
Overview
Using this Resource
Connecting to the Curriculum
Marking Student Responses
Further Resources
This task is about ordering weights from heaviest to lightest.

Question Change answer

Order the pictures below from heaviest to lightest.
  • sorting_chalk_0.png
  • sorting_horse.png
  • sorting_woman.png
  • sorting_bus.png
  • sorting_baby.png
  • sorting_can.png
Task administration: 
Equipment 
Template of pictures; paper to glue pictures onto; scissors; glue or tape (if paper based version of assessment resource is used).
 
  • This task can be completed with pen and paper or online (with auto marking).
  • You may need to remind students to order their pictures from "heaviest", at the top (or left) of the page to "lightest", at the bottom (or right) of the page.

 

Levels:
1, 2
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Geometry and Measurement, Measurement
Keywords: 
weight, ordering
Description of task: 
This task requires students to rank a series of pictures in order from heaviest to lightest.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can help to identify students' understanding of ordering weights/masses.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Measurement sense, sets 1-3
Measurement sense, sets 3-4
within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 

 

  

2 marks
(for all 6 correct)
or
1 mark
(1 error in order, this includes a missing response or transposition)

Bus. (Heaviest)
Horse.
Woman.
Baby.
Can of soup.
Chalk. (Lightest)