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Stepping out

Students make estimates of stride length and use this in practical measuring tasks.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 3, Year 6
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource
Format	Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Differentiated teaching, Mathematics investigation, Explicit teaching
Curriculum alignment
Strand and focus	Measurement
Topics	Using units of measurement, Length
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M3M01 Identify which metric units are used to measure everyday items; use measurements of familiar items and known units to make estimates 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 AC9M6M02 Establish the formula for the area of a rectangle and use it to solve practical problems
Numeracy progression	Understanding units of measurement (P6, P8)
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Organisation	New Zealand Ministry of Education
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