Length can be measured in any direction to give height, length and distance | Maths

Starter quiz

What number comes next in this sequence? 8, 9, 10, 11 ______

'12' ✓
What number is missing in this sequence? ______

'17' ✓
What is the missing part? ______

'5' ✓
What is the missing number on the number line? ______

'14' ✓
Jun has made 13 using 10 and a bit. What is the missing number on this number line? ______

'3' ✓
What number is the arrow pointing to on the number line? ______

'16' ✓

The leaf is ______ dominoes long.

'4' ✓
The length of the rope has been measured using pens. The rope is ______ pens long.

'12' ✓
To find how tall an object is, we measure the __________.

height ✓

distance

top

bottom
What is the height of the robot? The robot is ______ blocks tall.

'13' ✓
What is the distance that each car travelled?

The purple car travelled a distance of

⇔

5 cubes ✓

The green truck travelled a distance of

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10 cubes ✓
Match the parts of the sentence correctly.

Height measures

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how tall something is. ✓

Length measures

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how long or wide something is. ✓

Distance measures

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how far something travels. ✓

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You can measure length in any direction.
When you measure height, you start from the bottom of the object and measure to the top to find how tall something is.
When you measure length, you start at one end and measure to the other end to find how long or how wide something is.
When you measure distance, you start and stop where the object started and stopped to find how far it has travelled.

With larger amounts, children may miscount the number of objects.

Encourage children to mark where 10 objects end, and use this to count on from, rather than always re-starting at one.

Length - How long from end to end.
Height - How tall from bottom to top.
Distance - A length. A measurement of how far something has travelled through space.