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Make your own ruler
Students estimate, measure and compare lengths using informal units and compare these measurements with those made using metric instruments, including rulers, measuring tapes and trundle wheels.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 4
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Student activities
- Strand
- Measurement
- Topic
- Using units of measurement Length
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M4M01
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding units of measurement (P6)
- Publisher
- Queensland University of Technology
- Copyright
- © Queensland University of Technology. Free-for-education material.
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