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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Elapsed Time Printables (Digital Clocks)
Download a pack of differentiated Elapsed Time worksheets to help your students practise finding elapsed time using digital clocks.
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Days of the Week Word Scramble
Unscramble the names of the days in a week with a printable word scramble worksheet!
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Elapsed Time Anchor Chart - Problem Solving Strategies
Teach your students how to tell elapsed time with multiple strategies using a printable Elapsed Time Anchor Chart.
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Elapsed Time With Analogue Clocks – Worksheet Pack
Review elapsed time concepts with a set of printable elapsed time practice sheets.
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Year 4 Elapsed Time Word Problems - Task Cards
Solve different types of elapsed time word problems with a set of printable Year 4 Elapsed Time Task Cards.
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Months of the Year Worksheets
Read, write, and spell the months of the year with a set of printable Months of the Year worksheets for early years.
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Time to the Hour and Half-Hour - Digital Learning Activity
Read different clock faces to tell time to the nearest hour and half hour with an interactive slide deck.
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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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Differentiated Elapsed Time Word Problems Worksheets
Calculate time between events with a set of printable elapsed time worksheets.
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Elapsed Time Riddle Worksheets
Calculate elapsed time to solve the riddles in this printable pack of elapsed time practice worksheets.
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Telling the Time Bingo – Hour, Half-hour, Quarter To and Quarter Past
Play a few rounds of Telling the Time Bingo to practise telling the time to the quarter hours.
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Time to the Hour and Half Hour Match-Up
Match cards with three different representations of time to practise reading clocks and time in their written form.
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Perimeter Escape Room – The Mysterious Missing Cupcakes
Have your super-sleuth students solve this perimeter escape room to find out who stole the missing cupcakes!
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Perimeter of Composite Shapes Task Cards
Have your students find the perimeter of composite shapes with this set of task cards perfect for maths rotations.
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Perimeter Matching Game
Have students explore the perimeter of composite figures with this matching game perfect for collaborative learning.
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Finding the Area of 2D Shapes Poster
Display this math poster showing the area formula for different 2D shapes during your space and measurement lessons.
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Telling the Time Differentiated Peg Cards
Guide your students to tell the time on an analog clock with this set of differentiated peg cards.
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Roll and Cover – Telling Time to the Minute
Practise telling to the minute with this roll and cover game
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Measuring Length with Clovers Worksheet
Measure familiar objects using our lucky clover in this St Patrick’s Day maths activity!
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Measuring Capacity – Reading Scales Worksheet
Use this capacity worksheet to give students practice at reading scales on containers to measure capacity.
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Elapsed Time – Worksheet
A worksheet for students to practise calculating elapsed time.
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Time Maths Investigation - The Sands of Time
A mathematics investigation about measuring time, embedded in a real-world context.
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12- and 24-Hour Clock Template
A template for an interactive 12- and 24-hour clock.
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Measurement Word Search with Solution
A fun word search to help your students learn measurement vocabulary.
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Time Conversion Chart - Year 5 Maths
Help your Year 5 Maths students learn to convert units of time with a printable Time Conversion Chart.
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Four Seasons Spinner Activity — Southern Hemisphere
Print a four seasons spinner activity to expand students' understanding of the different times of the year.
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Telling the Time Worksheets- Quarter Hours
Tell and write time to the nearest quarter-hour and half-hour with printable telling time cut and paste worksheets.
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Months of the Year Poster - Northern Hemipshere
A poster displaying the months of the year.
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Measuring the Area of a Robot with Informal Units Worksheet
A worksheet to use when measuring area with informal square units.
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Estimation Activity - Estimating Space Worksheet Set
Use estimation activities like this estimating space worksheet set to give your students practice estimating, converting measurements and problem solving.
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12 and 24-Hour Time Puzzle Pops
Build batches of tasty ice lollies with a maths centre to match 12 and 24-hour times.
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Volume Worksheets
Provide your students with these volume worksheets to help them master finding the volume of cubes, rectangular prisms and triangular prisms.
- Measurement Worksheets
- Measurement Games
- Measurement Posters
- Measurement Templates
- Measurement Teaching Presentations
- Measurement Projects
- Measurement for Preschool/Kindergarten
- Measurement for Foundation Year
- Measurement for Year 1
- Measurement for Year 2
- Measurement for Year 3
- Measurement for Year 4
- Measurement for Year 5
- Measurement for Year 6
- Measurement for Year 7