Measurement and shapes
Build and connect the representations and methods in measurement and shapes.
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Build and connect the representations and methods in measurement and shapes.
Learning goals
- Count dollars and cents
- Read dollars and cents from money notation
- Write dollars and cents in money notation
- Compare two or three monetary amounts
- Convert money notation to cents
- Convert cents to money notation
- Read a length from a pictured ruler
- Read a mass from a pictured scale
- Read liquid volume from a pictured calibrated vessel
- Choose suitable units for length, mass and liquid volume
- Choose the abbreviations for length units
- Choose both gram and kilogram abbreviations
- Choose the abbreviation for litres
- Measure length with a real instrument
- Measure mass with a real weighing scale
- Measure liquid volume with a real measuring vessel
- Compare lengths
- Order lengths
- Compare masses
- Order masses
- Compare liquid volumes
- Order liquid volumes
- Measure time with a real clock in hours and minutes
- Convert hours and minutes to total minutes
- Convert total minutes to complete hours and remaining minutes
- Read clock times and use am and pm
- Complete a repeating shape pattern while preserving its attributes
- Make a repeating shape pattern with specified changing attributes
- Name a solid using every fitting primary shape name
- Group solid figures by their whole shape
- Describe a solid using its flat faces and curved surfaces
Syllabus statements covered
- counting amount of money in dollars and cents
- reading and writing money in decimal notation
- comparing two or three amounts of money
- converting an amount of money in decimal notation to cents only, and vice versa
- measuring • length in metres • mass in kilograms/grams • volume of liquid in litres
- using appropriate units of measurement and their abbreviations m, g, kg, ℓ
- comparing and ordering • lengths • masses • volumes
- telling time to the minute
- measuring time in hours and minutes
- converting time in hours and minutes to minutes only, and vice versa
- making/completing patterns with 2D shapes according to one or two of the following attributes • size • shape • colour • orientation
- identifying, naming, describing and classifying 3D shapes • cube • cuboid • cone • cylinder • sphere
Lessons
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- Dollars, cents and money notationRead dollars and cents, convert to cents and compare amounts without losing the unit.
- Choose a measurement unitMeasure length, mass and liquid volume using appropriate instruments and units.
- Minutes and elapsed timeRead every minute on a clock and convert between hours and minutes.
- Shape patterns and solid shapesTrack a shape pattern’s changing attributes and distinguish flat faces from solid objects.