Measurement resources

In this practical task, students work in pairs to estimate how much time they think has passed. One student estimates while the other times.

Students use a movie timetable advertisement to answer questions about the movies being shown to test their understanding of a.m. and p.m.

Students select which unit of time - seconds, minutes, or hours - would most likely be used to time a range of everyday activities.

Students read an analogue clock face and draw some times onto other clock faces.

Students work out how long a race took given the starting and finishing time. Answers are split into hours, minutes and seconds.

Students answer questions that involve converting between different ways of telling time.

Students work out time calculations involving 24 hour time.

Students answer questions about the difference between a range of given times in minutes.

Students answer questions about international time differences.

Students match digital times to events during a camp timetable.

This practical task requires students to rank a series of pictures of everyday objects in order from hottest to coldest.

Students calculate the area of three shapes with a grid in the background.

Students calculate the area of composite shapes.

Students work out the area of different shapes.

Students answer questions that involve time calculations.

Students answer questions about international time differences.

Students calculate volumes of composite shapes, showing their working.

Students read from, and mark points on, non-linear scales.

Students work out the area of a circle and a fraction (Sector) of a circle.

Students calculate the area of a composite shape on a grid.

Students answer questions that involve calculating the capacities of different situations.

Students calculate and identify the shape with the largest area, and the longest perimeter from three shapes drawn on a grid.

Students identify whether litres or millilitres would be the best unit of measurement for a range of everyday measuring tasks.

Students find the width and perimeter of three rectangles with the same area and different lengths.

Students use diagrams of a metric and imperial ruler to convert between inches and centimetres.