Back to Front Maths is a website with many Mathematical resources created by Tierney Kennedy. Her resources are free to use during the virus pandemic. Provided in the links below are task books with a variety of measurement activities to support parents and students.
Math Antics video unpacking concepts of area.
Link: Math Antics - Concepts of Area
Math Antics video unpacking concepts of perimeter.
A video, "Most Humans are Squares," asks students to investigate whether their arm span and height makes a square
Australian Curriculum Lessons website provides learning resources aligned to the Australian Curriculum. The investigation, My Dream Home, focuses on measurement concepts within a real-life scenario. Students design their own dream house while using many mathematical and design processes with the final outcome being a complete house design with all costing included.
re(Solve) is a Mathematics and Numeracy website with many resources aligned to the Australian Curriculum created by the Australian Government Department of Education. This link has three activities exploring area and perimeter including having learners design different floor plans for bumper car rides.
NRICH is a website with many Mathematical and Numeracy resources created by the University of Cambridge.
The inquiry, Twice as Big, explores what happens to area and perimeter when we enlarge shapes.
The inquiry, Inside Seven Squares, explores the area and perimeter of a growing shape.
Teacher Advice:
When teaching measurement concepts ensure students can distinguish between going about the measuring process and conceptually understands what they are doing when they measure. When students are exploring concepts of measuring encourage them to:
Adapted from: Van de Walle. J and Lovin.L, Teaching Student Centred Mathematics: Grades K-3, 2006
Considerations and Strategies for EAL Learners
Metric units use common morphemes to make new words (for example ‘cent’, ‘kilo’). These morphemes play an important role in helping to comprehend words and spell them. Morphological knowledge is crucial for EAL/D students, as it allows them to efficiently expand their vocabulary, through building word families. Unpack the meaning of words (for example centi = 100, metre = to count; kilo = 1000, kilometre, kilogram, kilowatt).
The language of comparison in English includes the use of the comparative adjective forms. These include:
Build lists and explain comparative and superlative forms of adjectives in the context of student learning.