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GM4-1: Use appropriate scales, devices, and metric units for length, area, volume and capacity, weight (mass), temperature, angle, and time.

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Elaboration on this Achievement Objective

This means students will work with the commonly used units of the metric system and measurement devices for:

  • Length- kilometre, metre, centimetre, millimetre, using rulers and tape measures
  • Area- square kilometre, hectare, square metre, square centimetre
  • Volume/Capacity- Cubic kilometre, cubic metre, litre (cubic decimetre), cubic centimetre using jugs, measurement cylinders
  • Weight- tonne, kilogram, gram, using scales
  • Temperature- degrees Celsius using thermometers

They should also be able to work with standard units for angle and time, degrees, hours, minutes, seconds. In carrying out measurement tasks students should be able to estimate approximate measurements, use units and devices that are appropriate to the task, for example measuring a cup of water in cubic centimetres, read scales with accuracy, for example a ruler to the nearest millimetre or a protractor to the nearest degree, and use symbols to record their results, for example 45mg (45 milligrams) or 6km 2 (6 square kilometres).

 

Teaching resources for this Achievement Objective
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Across Lake Taupō

Level Four
Integrated
Rich learning activities
The purpose of this activity is to engage students in using multiplicative and/or additive strategies to solve a measurement problem.
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All about angles

Level Four
Geometry and Measurement
Units of Work
This unit supports students to understand angles as a turn relationship between two rays, and to apply their understanding in sport and design settings.
  • Identify angles in the environment.
  • Measure an angle using a protractor.
  • Use angles to travel at a bearing.
  • Anticipate the path of a ball as it bounces off a wall.
  • Use rotational symmetry to create a logo.
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A Measured Response

Level Four
Integrated
Units of Work
The purpose of this unit is to have students identify a need, plan a response, seek feedback, design and build a ‘product’, applying number, measurement and technology knowledge and skills.
  • Identify a utility need or opportunity within the school and plan a response .
  • Create a design incorporating key attributes identified.
  • Investigate quality and comparative costs of possible construction materials.
  • Cost ‘fit for purpose’ construction materials and prepare a budget.
  • Draw plans300
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A Model World

Level Four
Integrated
Units of Work
The purpose of this unit is for students to apply and refine their measurement skills and to develop an understanding of enlargement and reduction, through making scale models to be used in a short, animated stop-motion film.
  • Understand and describe proportion using the language of mathematics.
  • Understand the principles of scale.
  • Create scale drawings.
  • Calculate scale dimensions.
  • Make accurate metric length measurements.
  • Understand that the value of the scale factor of a reduction is less than 1 and for an enlargement is300
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Average Looking

Level Four
Level Five
Geometry and Measurement
Units of Work
In this unit we use measurements of our classmates to find the average (mean and mode) of our features. We use our findings to create a 3-dimensional "class head".
  • Plan an investigation.
  • Calculate the mean and mode of a data set.
  • Discuss features of data displays using mean and mode.
  • State implications from an investigation.
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Books in Boxes

Level Four
Geometry and Measurement
Figure It Out activities
This is a level 4 measurement strand activity from the Figure It Out series. A PDF of the student activity is included.

solve problems with mass and volume

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Bouncing Back

Level Three
Level Four
Integrated
Figure It Out activities
This is a level 3-4 activity from the Figure It Out series.A PDF of the student activity is included.
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Breakfast Biscuits

Level Four
Integrated
Units of Work
This unit seeks to connect learning outcomes across all five content strands: number, geometry, statistics, and measurement, with a particularly strong connection being made to the use of measurement and statistics.
  • Construct nets.
  • Measure mass, capacity, length, and temperature using scales and devices.
  • Conduct investigations and present results.
  • Carry out experiments and systematically record the results.
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Building with triangles

Level Four
Geometry and Measurement
Units of Work
In this unit, students will identify the properties of triangles, construct both equilateral and irregular triangles using either a ruler and protractor or ruler and compass, and make nets for 3D shapes (including platonic solids and solids made up of triangles).
  • Construct triangles with specified dimensions using two different techniques.
  • Design and construct nets for three-dimensional objects.
  • Name basic three-dimensional objects, especially those made with equilateral triangles.
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Can You?

Level Four
Geometry and Measurement
Figure It Out activities
This is a level 4 measurement activity from the Figure it Out series.A PDF of the student activity is included.

sovle problems involving measurement units

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Catering for Size

Level Four
Integrated
The purpose of this unit is to engage students in applying their knowledge of measurement to solve problems involving food technology.
  • Identify, quantify, and represent, using graphs and expressions, the effect of a scale in time contexts.
  • Describe, apply, and graph linear relationships to solve problems involving time, temperature, and mass.
  • Scale, convert, compare, and apply metric measurements to solve problems involving grams and300
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Circle Links

Level Four
Level Five
Geometry and Measurement
Figure It Out activities
This is a level 4 and 5 measurement strand activity from the Figure It Out series. A PDF of the student activity is included.

find approximate value of pi from measurement

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Claws!

Level Four
Level Five
Integrated
Figure It Out activities
This is a level 4 measurement and statistics activity from the Figure It Out theme series.A PDF of the student activity is included.

interpret a tide chart

measure in millimetre with a ruler

create a graph to show data

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Clean Enough to Drink?

Level Three
Level Four
Integrated
Figure It Out activities
This is a level (3+ to 4+) mathematics in science contexts activity from the Figure It Out series.A PDF of the student activity is included.

Students will:

  • decide on appropriate ways to measure the amount of water lost in Activity Two
  • calculate percentages of large numbers and percentages of percentages.

Students should discover that:

  • a small percentage of a large number can itself be a large number
  • a familiar context can help give meaning to300
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Cool Times with Heat

Level Four
Geometry and Measurement
Units of Work
In this unit we use thermometers to investigate questions about temperature. We explore questions relating to cooling patterns, the effect of location on temperature, and the results of mixing of water with different temperatures.
  • Use thermometers to measure temperature in degrees Celsius.
  • Investigate factors that influence temperatures.
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Crunch the coach

Level Four
Integrated
This unit is designed to connect the desire to improve performance in physical activities with developing an understanding of how data can be collected and analysed to make sense of the different attributes that could contribute to improved performance.
  • Uses the statistical enquiry cycle to plan and conduct investigations
    • Identifies broad area to explore using the statistical enquiry cycle
    • Poses investigative questions about summary and relationship situations 
      • Makes predictions/assertions about what they expect to find out 
    • P300
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Doing Time

Level Three
Level Four
Level Five
Integrated
Secondary activities
In this activity students will explore activities relating to time.

finding time before and after a given time
writing times in different ways
working with 12 and 24 hour clocks
find fractions and decimals of an hour
solve problems involving time zones

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Dynamic Darts

Level Four
Integrated
Figure It Out activities
This is a level 4 activity from the Figure It Out series.A PDF of the student activity is included.
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Egging You On

Level Four
Geometry and Measurement
Figure It Out activities
This is a level 4 measurement activity from the Figure it Out series.A PDF of the student activity is included.

measure lengths

measure masses

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Faceprints

Level Four
Level Five
Integrated
Figure It Out activities
This is a level 4-5 activity from the Figure It Out series.A PDF of the student activity is included.
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Farewell Party

Level Four
Geometry and Measurement
Figure It Out activities
This is a level 4 measurement activity from the Figure It Out theme series. A PDF of the student activity is available.

express fractions of a circle in degrees

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Food Energy

Level Four
Integrated
Figure It Out activities
This is a level (3+ to 4+) mathematics in science contexts activity from the Figure It Out series.A PDF of the student activity is included.

Students will:

  • measure and record data on temperature change
  • convert between temperature change and food energy units
  • calculate the total energy needs and intake for sample menus, using food energy unit values
  • investigate the relative proportions of energy provided by different foods in their diet.

Stude300

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Fuel for Thought

Level Four
Geometry and Measurement
Figure It Out activities
This is a level 4 measurement activity from the Figure it Out series. A PDF of the student activity is included.

investigate capacity of containers

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Gigantic Jumbo

Level Three
Level Four
Geometry and Measurement
Figure It Out activities
This is a level 3 and 4 measurement activity from the Figure it Out series.A PDF of the student activity is included.

find volumes of cuboids

interpret charts

solve problems involving time and distances

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Hot Pots

Level Four
Geometry and Measurement
Figure It Out activities
This is a level 4 measurement strand activity from the Figure It Out series. It also has an achievement objective from the Level 5 Number strategies and knowledge substrand. A PDF of the student activity is included.

solve problems involving time

solve problems inovle time rates