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

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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
  
  ⇔
  
  Centimetres ✓
- Width of your fingernail
  
  ⇔
  
  Millimetres ✓
- Height of a school
  
  ⇔
  
  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
  
  ⇔
  
  30 m ✓
- Rugby pitch
  
  ⇔
  
  95 m ✓
- Basketball court
  
  ⇔
  
  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.