About this topic
Before you begin
Read and compare money amounts, choose measurement units, calculate elapsed time and recognise shape patterns and solids.
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
Choose a lesson
Work through them in order.
- Not startedDollars, cents and money notationNextRead dollars and cents. Change units and compare amounts.
- Not startedRead scales and choose unitsNextRead the marks or display. Compare lengths, masses and liquid volumes. Use matching units.
- Not startedMinutes and elapsed timeNextRead each minute on a clock. Measure time. Change between hours and minutes.
- Not startedShape patterns and solid shapesNextFollow changes in a shape pattern. Look at solids and their flat faces.