WS01 - How tall?

Use this work sample to assess students' knowledge and skills to convert between the units of length of centimetres and metres.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 6
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Assessment advice, Assessment task
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Feedback, Concrete Representational Abstract model
Keywords	place value, 4 operations, decimals, common metric units
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Number, Measurement
Topics	Operating with number, Properties of number, Using units of measurement
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M6N04 Apply knowledge of place value to add and subtract decimals, using digital tools where appropriate; use estimation and rounding to check the reasonableness of answers AC9M6N06 Multiply and divide decimals by multiples of powers of 10 without a calculator, applying knowledge of place value and proficiency with multiplication facts; using estimation and rounding to check the reasonableness of answers 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 AC9M6M04 Identify the relationships between angles on a straight line, angles at a point and vertically opposite angles; use these to determine unknown angles, communicating reasoning
Numeracy progression	Understanding units of measurement (P8) Additive strategies (P9) Multiplicative strategies (P9) Number and place value (P9)
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