Measurement sense resources

Students complete statements which explore the relationship between scale factor enlargements and length, area, and volume of 2 and 3 dimensional shapes.

This task is about identifying the best unit to measure temperature, weight, time, capacity and length.

Students calculate and record the length and height of coins in centimetres and metres.

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

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

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

Students estimate the height and length of various items around their school.

Students use a map to help them describe the shortest route away from and back to two New Zealand cities.

Students identify the largest weight of cuts of meat, and convert kilograms into grams.

Students read scales to measure images of objects to the nearest tenth of a centimetre.

In this practical task, students estimate, and then measure, the weight of two objects using a number of multi-link cubes, a balance scale and weights.

Students work out the height, width and length of gift packets.

Students calculate the lengths and areas of a road sign.

In this practical task, students estimate and then measure how far they can jump.

This practical task requires students to lift a 1 kg weight and then estimate whether a range of everyday objects weigh less than, about the same as, or more than 1 kilogram.

Students use a diagram of, and information about a measuring cup (a cone) to calculate and answer questions about volume.

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

Students match pictures of objects with a list of capacities involving litres and millilitres.

Students read scales from a car speedometer.

Students measure images of objects on a centimetre ruler.

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.