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Mathematics / Year 5 / Measurement and Geometry / Using units of measurement
Curriculum content descriptions
Choose appropriate units of measurement for length, area, volume, capacity and mass (ACMMG108)
Elaborations
- recognising that some units of measurement are better suited for some tasks than others, for example kilometres rather than metres to measure the distance between two towns
- investigating alternative measures of scale to demonstrate that these vary between countries and change over time, for example temperature measurement in Australia, Indonesia, Japan and USA
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Kilograms, Metres