Measurement Teaching Resources
Is your maths class ready to dive into length measurement, measuring objects and more measurement practice? Say hello to printable units of measurement worksheets, games and digital activities created by teachers for teachers!
This collection of teaching resources was created by our expert maths teachers to help students meet Australian Curriculum standards. Each printable and digital download has undergone a rigorous review by the teachers on the Teach Starter team to ensure they’re student-ready — so you can cut down on lesson planning time!
New to teaching this part of the maths curriculum? Our teacher team knows what it’s like to suddenly teach a brand-new year level, so we’ve put together a quick guide to teaching measurement!
What Are the 4 steps of Teaching and Learning Measurement?
Students have to learn a long list of measurement concepts during their time in primary school, including:
- length
- liquid volume
- elapsed time
- mass (weight)
- area
- volume of three-dimensional figures
The good news for teachers: Most measurement concepts have very real-world applications for students. That means there's a whole world of ways to get students excited about reading a ruler or tape measure or weighing heavy objects on a scale.
But before you can get there, let's start with the basic steps to work through when you're teaching students how to measure ... well ... anything!
- Direct Comparison — One of the earliest steps of learning measurement is learning the attributes that are being measured. For example, students need to learn what length is if they're ever going to measure it. That's where direct comparison (and step 2, indirect comparison), come in. If you put 2 objects side by side, students can directly compare which is longer and which is shorter and start to understand how to measure an object.
- Indirect Comparison — What happens when you can't directly compare two objects? You can add a third as a reference point for indirect comparison, thereby increasing student understanding of the attribute being measured.
- Measuring With Non-Standard Units or Informal Units — Just as students need to understand the attribute of measuring, they also need to understand the concept of the units we use to measure such as metres or litres. Using non-standard units is the first step to teaching the concept of units, offering students the chance to work with different objects, counting how many of these 'units' it takes to make up another. This is the fundamental base of measurement.
- Measuring With Standard Units — In the final step of teaching measurement, students move on to using the formal units of measurement and learn to use measurement instruments.
Why Is Teaching Measurement Important?
There are concrete uses for learning measurement that will surely spring to mind — from using a tape measure to measure a space in a home to weighing ingredients when baking to determining the capacity of a juice glass before pouring in the liquid. These are all means for quantifying our environment.
But the benefits of teaching students about measuring lines with a ruler or figuring out mass measurements from largest to smallest go well beyond the obvious. Learning to measure helps students develop spatial and number skills.
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Free Telling Time to the Minute Worksheets
A worksheet for telling time to the minute and converting between analogue and digital times.
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Differentiated Elapsed Time Worksheets for Beginners
Download a pack of differentiated Elapsed Time worksheets to help your students learn to calculate elapsed time in hours, half hours, and minutes.
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Metric Measurement Conversion Worksheet Set
Utilise our metric measurement conversion worksheet set to give your students practise converting units of metric length, mass and capacity.
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Perimeter and Area Dice Game
Use this area and perimeter dice game as a pair activity during your maths lessons on measurement.
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Area and Perimeter Paddock Problems – Worksheets
Use these worksheets when working on finding the area and perimeter of shapes using familiar metric units.
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Converting Time Worksheet - 12 to 24 Hour Time
Review how to convert 12-hour to 24 hour time with a printable converting time worksheet.
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Comparing Mass With Balance Scales Worksheet
Practise comparing and contrasting the mass of objects as shown on balance scales with this set of mass measurement worksheets.
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Measuring, Estimating, & Comparing Length Worksheets - Year 2
Use this printable set of Year 2 length worksheets to introduce your students to the concepts of measuring, comparing, and estimating length in informal units.
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Choosing Units of Measurement - Length Worksheets (Differentiated)
Identify the unit of measurement needed to measure the length of an object with a pack of ‘Choosing Units of Measurement’ Worksheets.
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Telling the Time Poster
Help your students learn to tell the time to the hour, half-hour, quarter, and minute with a printable Telling the Time anchor chart PDF.
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Perimeter and Area Poster
A poster that explains and compares the concepts of perimeter and area.
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Financial Mathematics Maths Investigation – Let's Play Mini Golf!
A mathematics investigation about financial mathematics and measurement, embedded in a real-world context.
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Informal Mass - Heavier or Lighter Interactive
Practise using informal units of measurement to compare and estimate the mass of everyday objects with this engaging digital activity.
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Measuring to the Nearest CM and MM Task Cards
Measure items to the nearest centimetre and millimetre with this set of 20 task cards.
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Converting 12 to 24 Hour Time Teaching Slides
Teach your students to convert between 12 and 24-hour clock times with an interactive teaching slide presentation.
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AM or PM? Year 4 Time Game
Differentiate between events that occur in A.M. and P.M. times with an interactive self-checking maths game.
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Measuring Length Drawing Challenge Worksheeets
Make learning to use a centimetre ruler fun with an engaging set of Measurement Drawing Challenge Worksheets.
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Calculating the Duration of Time - Interactive Game
Calculate durations of time and have fun with an interactive Elapsed Time game.
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Introduction to Area Teaching Slides
Introduce the concept of measuring the area of regular shapes with this 22-slide instructional slide deck.
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Same Perimeter, Different Area Word Problems – Worksheet
Practise solving multi-step word problems involving objects that have the same perimeter but different areas.
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Roll and Write - Telling Time Dice Game
Have fun learning how to tell time with a Roll and Write Telling Time Dice Game!
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Measuring Length with Informal Units Worksheets
A worksheet to use when learning about measuring length using informal units.
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Telling 24 Hour Time - Clock Worksheet
Download a free Year 5 Telling Time worksheet to practise telling time on a 24-hour clock.
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Telling Time Worksheets - Differentiated Maths
Practise using analogue clocks with this set of differentiated tell-the-time clock worksheets.
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Measuring Area Using Informal Units Worksheets
Use this set of area worksheets to help your students practise measuring the area of regular and irregular shapes using informal (square) units.
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Perimeter of Composite Shapes Worksheets
Use these perimeter of composite shapes worksheets in your maths lessons when teaching your students how to calculate more advanced perimeters.
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Determining Elapsed Time-Word Problems Worksheet
Print an elapsed time word problems worksheet to provide students with practise measuring the passage of time.
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Number Talks - Perimeter and Area Task Cards
Build number sense skills with this set of 28 task cards.
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Area and Perimeter Word Problems
Get students to solve area and perimeter word problems with this set of three worksheets.
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Time After Time Mathematics PowerPoint
Introduce your students to the history of the clock, time zones, and telling time with an interactive teaching presentation.
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Length Word Problems - Year 3 Maths Worksheet
Help your students relate addition and subtraction with length using a printable Measurement Word Problems Worksheet for Year 3.
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Paper Airplane Challenge - Measuring Distance Maths Activity
Practise measuring distance and have fun hosting a paper plane competition using a printable math investigation workbook.
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