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Teddy bears and friends
In this unit, students compare the lengths of soft toys directly and indirectly using multi-link cubes as uniform informal units.
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| Year level(s) | Year 1 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource, Student task |
| Format | Web page |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Explicit teaching, Differentiated teaching |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Curriculum connections | Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Measurement |
| Topics | Using units of measurement |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M1M01
Compare directly and indirectly and order objects and events using attributes of length, mass, capacity and duration, communicating reasoning |
| Numeracy progression |
Understanding units of measurement (P3)
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| Organisation | New Zealand Ministry of Education |
| Copyright | © New Zealand Ministry of Education. Creative Commons BY 3.0 NZ. |
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