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

Curriculum content descriptions

Connect days of the week to familiar events and actions (ACMMG008)

Elaborations
  • choosing events and actions that make connections with students’ everyday family routines
General capabilities
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Day

Interactive

Two days away

Kyle talks about today, tomorrow and yesterday as he waits for the day he is having his friend over.

Interactive

Sites2See – measurement for primary

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

Online

Farm Diaries

This resource is a 48 page pdf integrated inquiry unit, for junior primary students, exploring farm life and farm produce. Activities are sequenced using the five inquiry model. Topics examined include: how do farm families care for the animals and crops they farm?; how are these animals and crops processed for food or ...

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Data helps describe and wonder about the world

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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Measuring length and time

This two-week unit develops student knowledge, understanding and skills of what you want to describe decides the unit of measure you use. Students are provided with opportunities to: compare and describe the attributes of measurement, experiment with length and tell the time.

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Collections of ten are really useful

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

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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Data is collected to solve problems

This two-week unit develops student knowledge and skills in displaying and interpreting data, as well as connecting familiar events and actions to days of the week. Students are provided opportunities to: collect, sort and organise data into displays; interpret data through asking and responding to questions; collect and ...

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What needs to be measured determines the Unit of measurement: K–2 Year B – Unit 8

This sample multi–age unit explores the big idea 'what needs to be measured determines the unit of measurement'.

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Problems can be solved and represented in different ways: K–2 Year B – Unit 20

This two-week unit develops student knowledge, understanding and skills to solve mathematical problems using critical and strategic thinking.

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Data is collected to solve problems: K–2 Year B – Unit 18

This two-week unit develops student understanding of data and chance, and their interconnectedness. Students are provided opportunities to: investigate topics of interest by choosing suitable questions to collect, display and interpret relevant data; identify misleading data; learn the names and order of days of the week; ...

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What needs to be measured determines the unit of measurement: K–2 Year A – Unit 8

This sample multi-age unit explores the big idea 'what needs to be measured determines the unit of measurement'.

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Problems can be solved and represented in different ways: K–2 Year A – Unit 20

This two-week unit develops student knowledge, understanding and skills that problems can be solved and represented in different ways.

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'Dog In, Cat Out' - Time Unit - Calculate

Using the Australian children's book 'Dog In, Cat Out' (written by Gillian Rubinstein and illustrated by Ann James) the lesson sequences and activities in this unit are a way to help children from Foundation to Grade 2 level gain an understanding of the concept of time, its measurement and its numeration.

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Time and duration: Foundation – planning tool

This planning resource for Foundation is for the topic of Time and duration. Students sequence days of the week and daily events.

Downloadable

How long does it take?

Students describe, compare and order the duration of events. They investigate the length of a day and sequence the different phases that occur within this time period.

Video

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

Dodly is getting ready for a very special occasion tomorrow. How will he fill in his time? How long does he have to wait? And what is his special occasion? With Dodly, Flynn and the Flying GIrl, investigate different ways of measuring time and discover how to read analogue and digital clocks.

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Primary mathematics: games, simulations and modelling

These seven learning activities, which focus on 'games, simulations and modelling' using a variety of tools (software) and devices (hardware), illustrate the ways in which content, pedagogy and technology can be successfully and effectively integrated in order to promote learning. In the activities, teachers use games, ...