Length, Mass and Capacity

This resource contains a collection of interactive pictures designed to illustrate and practise the vocabulary associated with measure. They are:

Length and capacity: ordering people from shortest to tallest, comparing the contents of two jars to each other, comparing objects of various things into the tallest, shortest, narrowest, widest, measuring and comparing the length of ribbons to 10cm.

Length, mass and capacity: recognising common abbreviations of the metric units of length, mass and capacity, a virtual weighing machine for weighing different things, converting between units of length and mass to 1 and 2 decimal places, visual representations of centilitres, litres and tonnes and converting between various units.

Length mass and capacity-four ribbons: reading lengths and asking questions about the relation between four ribbons, looking at number of squirrels to balance a scale and how many cans of juice will fill up a larger container.

Length mass and capacity-measurement: rounding to nearest 10cm, working out weights of presents given a weight of a known amount of presents, visual representation of 1 litre and 1 mm using cubes, investigating other cuboids with a capacity of 1 litre.

Length, mass and capacity-units: looking at common units of distance/length, mass and capacity, comparing the length of three ribbons up to 100cm, and calculating the weights of a given number of candles by multiplying up or down and reading scales on a jug and kitchen scales.

This resource has been provided by the Virtual Textbook. It is part of the Geometry and Measure sub-collection, which contains many further curriculum linked interactive spreadsheets.

Note
This program was designed to be viewed on a screen with a resolution of 1024 x 768. Users may have to adjust the resolution of their screen for the pages to display as was originally intended. The program uses macros which need to be enabled on the users machine.