Estimate, measure and calculate with routine metric measurements

What is a measurement?

• A Maths teachers favourite topic

• Something written on the side of a jug

• Not important to learn

• A number that shows the size or amount of something

Some typical tasks that use measurement skills are: (more than one answer)

• shopping

• answering the phone

• reading timetables

• cooking

The types of clocks and watches include:

• grandfather

• digital

• analogue

• both digital and analogue

A 12 hour clock time splits the day into:

• 1 lot of 24 hours

• 3 lots of 8 hours

• 2 lots of 12 hours

• hours, minutes, seconds and time

Dates are written on many things including: (may be more than one)

• pay by date bills

• due dates on library books

• use by date on food packaging

• sale dates on advertising catalogues

When you calculate time always:

• Add or subtract the hours first and then the minutes

• Don't do any adding or subtracting

• Add and subtract the minutes first and then the hours

• Add and subtract the hours and minutes at the same time

Temperature is:

• when I know it is time to put on a jumper

• annoying when it affects my holidays

• a measure to calculate time

• the measure of how hot of cold something is

Words that describe or compare length include:

• shorter

• near

• smaller

• far

The standard unit used to measure mass is:

• ounce

• gram

• millilitre

• litre

Capacity is:

• how heavy you are

• the measure of the amount of substance in a container

• the amount of space taken up by something

• the measure of how much an object can hold when it is full