Measurement sense resources

Students convert millilitres to litres and vice versa when working out quantities of bottles and glasses of fizzy drink for a party.

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.

This practical task requires students to use a 1 metre measure to estimate the dimensions of a room, and then calculate the volume of the room.

Students select a true statement about the area of three shapes on a grid.

Students calculate the shapes with the largest and smallest perimeter and identify a relationship between the features of a shape and the perimeter.

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

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

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

Students convert units of weight - grams and kilograms - to answer questions a range of food items.

Students draw shapes to show how the perimeter increases and decreases for different shapes of the same area size.

Students calculate the perimeter and area of a composite shape.

Students calculate the capacity, in millilitres, of three containers whose measurements are given in centimetres.

Students estimate (and explain how) the area of two islands on a grid.

Students calculate the area of a space to be painted and the length of time it will take to paint a different area.

Students calculate the length of fencing around a deck.

Students calculate the distance around three different sized gardens.

For this NEMP task students use a protractor to measure how many degrees two boats turn as they change course.

Students answer four multiple-choice questions about volume and surface area.

Students calculate the weight for different numbers of soccer balls and calculate the weight for a given number of soccer balls.

Students are asked to work out the perimeter of different polygon shapes.

Students find the perimeters for range of different 4-sided polygons.

Students use a diagram of a netball court and soccer field to calculate area.

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

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.

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.