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Measurement Monkeys

Measurement Monkeys
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Description

Your students will have lots of fun practising informal length measurement while playing this game. Students will use the included measurement strips to measure a variety of objects as they race to the finish line!
 

Suitable for
  • Fast Finishers
  • Relief Teachers
Lesson Structure
  • Rotations / Group Work
Curriculum Codes

AC9M1M01 9

Compare directly and indirectly and order objects and events using attributes of length, mass, capacity and duration, communicating reasoning

AC9M1M02 9

Measure the length of shapes and objects using informal units, recognising that units need to be uniform and used end-to-end

ACMMG019 8.4

Measure and compare the lengths and capacities of pairs of objects using uniform informal units

MA1-1WM old

Describes mathematical situations and methods using everyday and some mathematical language, actions, materials, diagrams and symbols

MA1-3WM old

Supports conclusions by explaining or demonstrating how answers were obtained

MA1-9MG old

Measures, records, compares and estimates lengths and distances using uniform informal units, metres and centimetres

MA1-11MG old

Measures, records, compares and estimates volumes and capacities using uniform informal units

MA1-NSM-01 new

Measures, records, compares and estimates the masses of objects using uniform informal units

MA1-3DS-02 new

Measures, records, compares and estimates internal volumes (capacities) and volumes using uniform informal units

MA1-GM-02 new

Measures, records, compares and estimates lengths and distances using uniform informal units, as well as metres and centimetres

MA1-NSM-02 new

Describes, compares and orders durations of events, and reads half- and quarter-hour time

MA1-GM-03 new

Creates and recognises halves, quarters and eighths as part measures of a whole length

VCMMG095

Measure and compare the lengths, masses and capacities of pairs of objects using uniform informal units

Differentiation

EXTENSIONS

Students can use the cards as a separate task to measure and order length using other informal units.
 

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