About this topic
Before you begin
Explore money, rulers, clocks, shapes and positions.
Learning goals
- Count money in cents
- Count whole dollars
- Read a length from a pictured ruler
- Choose the abbreviations for length units
- Measure length with a real instrument
- Use a ruler to draw a line of the required length
- Compare lengths
- Order lengths
- Choose both hour and minute abbreviations
- Find a duration of one hour or half an hour
- Read clock times and use am and pm
- Identify the basic shapes inside a combined figure
- Form a new figure by moving and turning basic shapes
- Copy a figure on a square grid
- Name a plane shape from its whole boundary
- Group plane figures by shape
- Describe straight and curved parts of a plane shape's boundary
Syllabus statements covered
- Counting amount of money
- in cents up to $1
- in dollars up to $100
- Measuring length in centimetres
- Use of abbreviation cm
- Comparing and ordering lengths in cm
- Measuring and drawing a line segment to the nearest cm
- Telling time to 5 minutes
- Use of ‘am’ and ‘pm’
- Use of abbreviations h and min
- Duration of one hour/half hour
- Identifying, naming, describing and classifying 2D shapes
- Rectangle
- Square
- Triangle
- Circle
- Half circle
- Quarter circle
- Forming different 2D figures with
- Rectangle
- Square
- Triangle
- Half circle
- Quarter circle
- Identifying the 2D shapes that make up a given figure
- Copying figures on dot grid or square grid
Choose a lesson
Work through them in order.
- Not startedCount coins and notesNextCount Singapore coins and notes. Keep cents and dollars separate.
- Not startedMeasure in centimetresNextUse centimetre gaps. Measure, compare and draw straight lines.
- Not startedRead a clock in fivesNextRead both hands. Use am and pm. Follow hours and half hours.
- Not startedShapes, parts and gridsNextLook at flat shapes’ edges. Join shapes and copy them on a grid.