Estimate and measure lengths and heights and record in a table | Maths

Starter quiz

Which of these would you use metres to measure?

The width of a book.

The length of a pen.

The height of a giraffe. ✓

The height of a daisy.
Match the object to the unit that you would use to measure it in.

Length of a goldfish

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Centimetres ✓

Width of your fingernail

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Millimetres ✓

Height of a school

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Metres ✓
What is the length of this leaf?

'6 cm' ✓
What is the length of this feather?

1 cm

10 cm ✓

11 cm
Estimate the height of this door.

1 m

1 cm

5 m

2 m ✓
Estimate the length of this elephant.

1 m

2 m

5 m ✓

20 m

A collection of numbers, words, measurements and descriptions of things arranged in rows and columns in a table is known as ______.

Table

Row

Column

Data ✓
Which unit would you use to measure the length of a football pitch?

mm

cm

m ✓
Look at this table. What was the estimated length of the rugby pitch?

80 m

25 m

100 m ✓

30 m
Look at this table. Which playing area has the shortest actual length.

Football pitch

Netball court

Rugby Pitch

Basketball court ✓
Look at this table. Match the playing area to its actual length.

Football pitch

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105 m ✓

Netball court

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30 m ✓

Rugby pitch

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95 m ✓

Basketball court

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28 m ✓
Look at the table. What is the difference in length between the estimated longest and estimated shortest playing areas?

100 m

25 m

85 m

75 m ✓

125 m

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Children may mistake which unit to measure in or may struggle to estimate.

This is one 1 m/1 cm length. How many of these do you think would be the same as the length/height of the object being measured?

Table - A table is data arranged in rows and columns.
Data - A collection of numbers, words, measurements and descriptions of things.
Column - A column is a vertical arrangement of objects or numbers going up and down.
Row - A row is a horizontal arrangement of objects or numbers going across.