Mathematics Foundation Measurement

Use direct and indirect comparisons to decide which is longer, heavier or holds more, and explain reasoning in everyday language

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  • Unit Plan Year: F

    Maths Unit: Duration

    This Duration Unit Plan introduces students to the mathematical skill of comparing duration of events and activities. This unit guides stude...

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    STEAM Unit: Building Bridges

    This activity is a quick engineering challenge that your students will love! It can be completed in a single session with minimal materials....

  • Unit Plan Year: F

    Maths Unit: What is Measurement?

    This unit plan is a great introduction to measurement, giving a clear and detailed explanation of length, mass and capacity. The unitย provid...

  • Presentation Year: F

    All About Duration - Presentation

    This โ€˜All About Durationโ€™ Presentation introduces students to time associated words that are often used to describe duration. This presen...

  • Presentation Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Building Bridges - Presentation

    This presentation is designed to accompany the STEM activity of the same name. It walks students through the human history of bridge buildin...

  • Presentation Year: F

    Measurement - Presentation

    This presentation is a great introduction to measurement, giving a clear and detailed explanation of length, mass and capacity. The presenta...

  • Presentation Year: F

    Capacity and Mass - Presentation

    A PowerPoint presentation that explains and contrasts capacity and mass and introduces a series of hands-on activities available on an accom...

  • Resource Year: F

    Shape Sort - Board Game

    Shape Sort is a Foundation-level board game designed to help students name, sort and describe familiar two-dimensional shapes. As they move...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3

    Shape Sorting Game

    Make geometry interactive and fun with the Shape Sorting Game! This hands-on activity helps students identify, classify, and record properti...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Halloween Booklet - Lower Primary

    Dive into a world of Halloween excitement tailored for our youngest learners! This 40-page booklet is packed with spooktacular activities, i...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Harrowing Halloween Measurement Cards

    Harrowing Halloween Measuring Cards is an exciting and educational resource designed for young students to practice measuring length using i...

  • Worksheet Year: 5 6

    Easter Pack - Upper Primary

    Elevate Easter celebrations for upper primary students (Years 5-6) with our dynamic Easter Pack! Engage in challenging math puzzles, creativ...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Easter Pack - Middle Primary

    Unleash the spirit of Easter with our vibrant pack designed for students in Years 3-4! From egg-cellent word searches to math challenges wit...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Easter Pack - Lower Primary

    Dive into a world of Easter excitement tailored for our youngest learners! This pack is filled with delightful activities, including bunny m...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Capacity Activity Cards

    Dive into measurement fun with our range of Capacity Activity Cards!ย  Are you ready to take your students on an exciting journey through...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Mass Activity Cards

    Are you looking for an engaging and interactive way to teach students the fundamentals of mass and measurement? Look no further than our Mas...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Mass Mats

    Are you looking for an exciting and hands-on way to teach students about mass? Look no further than our Mass Mats! These innovative learning...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Capacity Mats

    Introducing our Capacity Mats, the ultimate resource for igniting your students' curiosity about capacity and measurement. These engaging ma...

  • Resource Year: F

    Comparing Duration Assessment Script

    Use this โ€˜Comparing Duration Assessment Scriptโ€™ alongside the โ€˜Time Sequencing Cardsโ€™ to assess student understanding of duration. Simply...

  • Resource Year: F

    Durations Quiz

    Use this Durations Quiz with your class to compare the duration of familiar events and activities. Answers are displayed after each quest...

  • Resource Year: F

    What is the duration?

    Students complete this worksheet with a friend to race to get 3-in-a-row. Students spin the spinner using a paperclip and pencil to land on...

  • Resource Year: F

    Duration Action Cubes

    These Duration Action Cubes are an engaging and hands on way to compare duration of common actions/activities. Students complete the acti...

  • Resource Year: F

    Duration Poster Set

    This Duration Poster Set makes a wonderful visual reference for students to recall time-associated/duration words. The display includes the...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Duration Display Class Activity

    This Duration Display Class Activity makes for a wonderful whole-class activity to engage in a joint construction of a duration display for...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Duration Detectives

    This fun โ€˜hands onโ€™ worksheet supports students when learning about duration. Students colour in each picture at the bottom, carefully cut e...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    How Long Does It Take?

    This fun โ€˜hands onโ€™ two page worksheet supports students when learning about the duration of seconds, minutes and hours. Students cut and pa...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    What Is Longer?

    This handy worksheet supports students when learning about the concept of duration. This worksheet allows students to think about which acti...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    All About Duration - Student Reference Card

    These handy reference cards can be pasted into your studentsโ€™ workbooks to use as a reference point when learning all about duration in Year...

  • Resource Year: F

    Measurement Quiz

    This worksheet is part of a larger unit on โ€˜What is Measurement?โ€™. The unit is a great introduction to measurement, giving a clear and detai...

  • Resource Year: F

    Capacity Containers

    This worksheet is part of a larger unit on โ€˜What is Measurement?โ€™. The unit is a great introduction to measurement, giving a clear and detai...

  • Resource Year: F

    Who Sank the Boat? - Mass Experiment

    This worksheet is part of a larger unit on โ€˜What is Measurement?โ€™. The unit is a great introduction to measurement, giving a clear and detai...

  • Resource Year: F

    Capacity Experiment

    This worksheet is part of a larger unit on โ€˜What is Measurement?โ€™. The unit is a great introduction to measurement, giving a clear and detai...

  • Resource Year: F

    Length Experiment

    This worksheet is part of a larger unit on โ€˜What is Measurement?โ€™. The unit is a great introduction to measurement, giving a clear and detai...

  • Resource Year: F

    Full, Half-Full and Empty

    This worksheet is part of a larger unit on โ€˜What is Measurement?โ€™. The unit is a great introduction to measurement, giving a clear and detai...

  • Resource Year: F

    Capacity โ€“ Filling Objects

    This worksheet is part of a larger unit on โ€˜What is Measurement?โ€™. The unit is a great introduction to measurement, giving a clear and detai...

  • Resource Year: F

    Less and More

    This worksheet is part of a larger unit on โ€˜What is Measurement?โ€™. The unit is a great introduction to measurement, giving a clear and detai...

  • Resource Year: F

    Heavier Than, Lighter Than

    This worksheet is part of a larger unit on โ€˜What is Measurement?โ€™. The unit is a great introduction to measurement, giving a clear and detai...

  • Resource Year: F

    See-Saw Measurement: Heavy or Light?

    This worksheet is part of a larger unit on โ€˜What is Measurement?โ€™. The unit is a great introduction to measurement, giving a clear and detai...

  • Resource Year: F

    Mass: Heavy or Light?

    This worksheet is part of a larger unit on โ€˜What is Measurement?โ€™. The unit is a great introduction to measurement, giving a clear and detai...

  • Resource Year: F

    Shorter or Longer

    This worksheet is part of a larger unit on โ€˜What is Measurement?โ€™. The unit is a great introduction to measurement, giving a clear and detai...

  • Resource Year: F

    Measure It

    This worksheet is part of a larger unit on โ€˜What is Measurement?โ€™. The unit is a great introduction to measurement, giving a clear and detai...

  • Resource Year: F

    Comparing Different Sizes

    This worksheet is part of a larger unit on โ€˜What is Measurement?โ€™. The unit is a great introduction to measurement, giving a clear and detai...

  • Resource Year: F

    How Tall Is It?

    This worksheet is part of a larger unit on โ€˜What is Measurement?โ€™. The unit is a great introduction to measurement, giving a clear and detai...

  • Resource Year: F

    Measuring School Objects

    This worksheet is part of a larger unit on โ€˜What is Measurement?โ€™. The unit is a great introduction to measurement, giving a clear and detai...

  • Resource Year: F

    Which is Heaviest?

    This worksheet is part of a larger unit on โ€˜What is Measurement?โ€™. The unit is a great introduction to measurement, giving a clear and detai...

  • Resource Year: F

    Tallest Worksheet

    This worksheet is part of a larger unit on โ€˜What is Measurement?โ€™. The unit is a great introduction to measurement, giving a clear and detai...

  • Resource Year: F

    The Tallest Pencil

    This worksheet is part of a larger unit on โ€˜What is Measurement?โ€™. The unit is a great introduction to measurement, giving a clear and detai...

  • Resource Year: F

    The Longest and the Shortest

    This worksheet is part of a larger unit on โ€˜What is Measurement?โ€™. The unit is a great introduction to measurement, giving a clear and detai...

  • Resource Year: F

    Measure the Objects

    This worksheet is part of a larger unit on โ€˜What is Measurement?โ€™. The unit is a great introduction to measurement, giving a clear and detai...

  • Resource Year: F

    Measuring Ice-Cream Scoops

    This worksheet is part of a larger unit on โ€˜What is Measurement?โ€™. The unit is a great introduction to measurement, giving a clear and detai...

  • Resource Year: F

    Tallest

    This worksheet is part of a larger unit on โ€˜What is Measurement?โ€™. The unit is a great introduction to measurement, giving a clear and detai...

  • Resource Year: F

    What is Measurement? - Student Reference Card

    This student reference card was created as a part of the What is Measurement? unit plan. It can be stuck in their books and referred to thro...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3

    Measurement Poster

    This poster is part of a larger unit on โ€˜What is Measurement?โ€™. The unit is a great introduction to measurement, giving a clear and detailed...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Which is heaviest? C

    This resource has been designed to support teaching and consolidate understanding of comparing heaviest and lightest objects using informal...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Which is heaviest? B

    This resource has been designed to support teaching and consolidate understanding of comparing heaviest and lightest objects using informal...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Which is heaviest? A

    This resource has been designed to support teaching and consolidate understanding of comparing heaviest and lightest objects using informal...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Tallest B - Comparing Length

    This resource was designed to support student skills in using informal measurement to compare the length.ย 

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Tallest A - Comparing Length

    This resource was designed to support student skills in using informal measurement to compare the length.ย 

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Comparing Length C

    This resource was designed to support student skills in using informal measurement to compare the length.ย 

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Comparing Length B

    This resource was designed to support student skills in using informal measurement to compare the length.ย 

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Comparing Length A

    This resource was designed to support student skills in using informal measurement to compare the length.ย 

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Order by Size B - Comparing Length

    This resource was designed to support student skills in using informal measurement to compare the length.ย 

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Order by Size A - Comparing Length

    This resource was designed to support student skills in using informal measurement to compare the length.ย 

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Investigating Capacity and Mass

    Investigating Capacity and Mass

  • Resource Year: P F

    Which is heavier?

    Which is heavier? was designed for Foundation students. It uses indirectย comparisons to decide which of the objects pictured is heavier. Stu...

  • Resource Year: P F

    Snakes - Which Is longer?

    Snakes - Which is longer? provides practise in direct comparison to decide which is longer and encourages Foundation students to explain rea...

  • Resource Year: F

    Measuring with Unifix Blocks

    Measuring with Unifix Blocks was created for Foundation students to practise direct comparisons to decide which is taller and explain reason...

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Look for the longest

    Encourage students to identify and compare lengths with this interactive resource.

  • Worksheet Year: P F

    Long and Short

    Explore the concept of length with this resource focused on comparing objects as long or short.

  • Worksheet Year: F

    High and Low

    Introduce the concepts of height and position with this resource that explores high and low objects.

  • Worksheet Year: F

    Heavy and Light

    Introduce the concepts of weight and measurement with this resource that explores heavy and light objects.

  • Worksheet Year: P F

    Fast and Slow

    Introduce the concept of speed with this resource that explores fast and slow movements.

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