Measurement investigations (6 lessons)

In this sequence of 6 lessons, students measure, compare and convert metric units for length, area, capacity, mass and time to solve practical problems.

Additional details

Year level(s) Year 6
Audience Teacher
Purpose Teaching resource
Format Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches Explicit teaching, Worked examples, Questioning, Concrete Representational Abstract model, Mathematics investigation
Keywords measurement, metric systems, unit conversion, summative assessment

Curriculum alignment

Curriculum connections Numeracy
Strand and focus Measurement
Topics Length, Mass and capacity, Using units of measurement
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions
AC9M6M01
Convert between common metric units of length, mass and capacity; choose and use decimal representations of metric measurements relevant to the context of a problem

Numeracy progression Understanding units of measurement (P8)

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Organisation

Victoria State Government Department of Education

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