Which has more volume?
Use this diagnostic task to assess what students know about volume and units to measure and compare volumes.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 7
- Purpose
- Assessment advice Assessment tasks
- Strand
- Measurement
- Topic
- Area, volume and surface area Mass and capacity
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M7M02
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding units of measurement (P9)
- Publisher
- Department of Education WA
- Copyright
- © Department of Education WA 2013. Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0
- File type
- File size
- 36.8 KB
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