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Length and height: an introduction to measuring and comparing

This guide provides a sequence of steps using contrete materials to explore length and height using non-standard units and then centimetres on a ruler.

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Year level(s)	Foundation, Year 1, Year 2
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource, Teaching strategies
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Questioning, Explicit teaching
Keywords	length, height, units, centimetres, reasoning, problem-solving, explicit teaching
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Measurement, Build understanding
Topics	Using units of measurement
AC: Mathematics content descriptions	ACMMG006 Use direct and indirect comparisons to decide which is longer, heavier or holds more, and explain reasoning in everyday language ACMMG019 Measure and compare the lengths and capacities of pairs of objects using uniform informal units ACMMG037 Compare and order several shapes and objects based on length, area, volume and capacity using appropriate uniform informal units
National numeracy learning progression	Understanding units of measurement - UuM1, UuM2
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