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Mathematics / Foundation / Measurement and Geometry / Using units of measurement

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Compare and order duration of events using everyday language of time (ACMMG007)

Elaborations
  • knowing and identifying the days of the week and linking specific days to familiar events
  • sequencing familiar events in time order
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
ScOT terms

Chronological order,  Time units,  Elapsed time

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Sites2See – measurement for primary

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Selected links to a range of interactive and print resources for Measurement topics in K-6 Mathematics.

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Count Us In, Ep 10: How long is a minute?

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What needs to be measured determines the unit of measurement

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This 2-week unit introduces students to the big idea 'What you want to describe decides what unit of measure to use'. Students are provided opportunities to: recognise that the attribute you want to describe informs the unit of measure you use; describe, compare, and order measurable attributes including length, area, volume ...

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Data helps describe and wonder about the world

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This two-week unit introduces students to methods of displaying and interpreting sorted data, measuring the duration of time and reading and representing hour time. Students are provided opportunities to: collect, sort and organise data into displays; interpret data through posing and responding to questions; compare the ...

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This two-week unit develops student knowledge and understanding that skills of collections of 10 are really useful. Students are provided opportunities to: represent numbers in a variety of ways; reason about the way numbers can be combined and separated; use positional language both in a physical world context and in more ...

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Problems can be solved and represented in different ways

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This two-week unit develops student knowledge, understanding and skills for solving problems related to number and time concepts. Students are provided opportunities to: solve problems by combining, separating and forming groups; sequence and identify the duration of events using a range of methods; read hour time on analog ...

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This two-week unit introduces students to a half as two equal parts of a whole and the use of symbols as efficient communication for mathematical ideas. Students are provided opportunities to: recognise two equal parts as halves of a collection, a measure, a shape or an object; find and describe the halfway point in a length; ...

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Objects can be sorted and classified in different ways

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In this animated video, Poly the puppy makes her way through an obstacle course which features 2D shapes and 3D objects. The mathematical focus is on sorting and describing squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, spheres and cubes; recognising 2D shapes within 3D objects; understanding and using terms such as ‘first’ ...

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