Measurement sense resources

Students calculate the volume of blocks in a cylinder, the cylinder and the space around the blocks.

Students use known diameters of tins to work out the floor area of a carton and a given number of tins.

Students calculate the area of a block of land and calculate a width given the area. The questions also involve working with hectares.

Students use diagrams of two boxes with given dimensions to calculate the volume of both boxes and the number of smaller boxes that could fit into one of the boxes.

Students calculate the areas of four composite shapes.

Students use a scale map to estimate the area of Antarctica and explain their method.

Students enlarge a shape on a grid and explore the relationship between scale factor and area.

Students calculate the area of lawn, deck, house, patio, pool drive and garden of a section.

Students use the measurements of a swimming pool and surrounding area to calculate perimeter, area and quantity of tiles needed for the surrounds.

Students convert between millilitres, litres, pints and gallons, and kilometres and miles.

Students calculate the area of a bush reserve in hectares.

Students calculate the surface area and volume of cuboids.

Students calculate area of colours and the perimeter of a flag.

Students calculate the width, height, perimeter and area of a dressing table, and the volume of a drawer from given measurements.

Students answer multiple-choice questions about volume of fish tanks given their dimensions.

This practical task requires students to construct open boxes from grid paper and calculate their volumes.

This task is about finding the circumference of a circle using two different radius measurements.