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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Measuring Volume Worksheet
A worksheet to use when exploring the concept of volume.
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Measurement Word Search with Solution
A fun word search to help your students learn measurement vocabulary.
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Volume and Capacity Sort Game
A volume and capacity sort game for lower grades.
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Time Dominoes - Five Minute Intervals
Practise telling time to the nearest 5 minutes by matching 32 analogue and digital clock dominoes.
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Months of the Year - Digital Maths Activity
Drag and drop to learn the months of the year and how to identify dates on a calendar with an engaging drag-and-drop interactive activity.
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Which Is Heavier? – Interactive Game
Have your students practise identifying heavier or lighter objects with an engaging “Which is Heavier" interactive game.
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What Day Is It? Calendar Math Worksheet
Engage students in daily maths review lessons with a printable ‘What Day Is It’ Calendar Maths Worksheet.
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Seasons, Days, & Months of the Year Spelling Worksheet
Spell the days of the week, months of the year, and the four seasons with a printable Spelling Homework sheet.
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Calendar Maths - Days and Months Task Cards
Teach your students about calendars, days of the week, and months of the year with a Classroom Calendar Scoot Game!
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Volume of Rectangular Prisms – Interactive Activity
Practise calculating the volume of rectangular prisms with this interactive activity.
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Five Wonders Theme Park: Token Night – Project
A project in which students use stimulus posters to plan the best evening at Five Wonders Theme Park within a given budget and time frame.
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Five Wonders Theme Park: Flying Visit – Project
Students use their knowledge of maps, timetables and money to plan a well-timed 'flying' visit to Five Wonders Theme Park, between two connecting flights.
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How Much Does It Measure? Interactive PowerPoint
A 20-question interactive quiz to reinforce a range of measurement concepts.
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Number Talks - Volume Task Cards
Build number sense skills with this set of 26 task cards.
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Sports Day Dilemma - Numeracy Whole Class Game
A whole class game that consolidates your students’ knowledge of measurement and graphing concepts – in a fun way!
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Five Wonders Theme Park: Induction Booklet – Project
A project where students study the Five Wonders Theme Park stimulus poster to understand and use real world learning skills.
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Clock Labels – 'Past' and 'To'
A template to display around your classroom clock that highlights 'past' and 'to' terminology.
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Time Machine Match-Up Activity
A fun sorting activity that consolidates knowledge of time to the hour, half-hour and to the quarter-hour.
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Colossal Cinemas: Which Popcorn Popper? – Project
A project that encourages students to use imperial and customary units to measure popcorn poppers and the popcorn they produce.
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Capacity Maths Investigation — Filling the Fish Tank Activity
A mathematics investigation involving capacity, embedded in a real-world context.
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Informal Measurement - Task Cards
A set of task cards to use when learning about informal measurement.
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Converting Units of Measurement Poster (Imperial)
Use these posters to assist your students in learning the different units of measurement in the imperial system.
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Days in Each Month Poster
A poster showing the number of days in each month.
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Months of the Year Poster — Southern Hemisphere
A poster displaying the months of the year.
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Following Directions Worksheets - Reading a Clock Review
Practise telling time to the half-hour, quarter-hour, and five-minute mark with a pack of printable Following Directions to Tell the Time worksheets.
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Days of the Week Spelling Worksheets
Use these Days of the Week Spelling worksheets to help your students practise reading, writing, and spelling the Days of the week.
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Elapsed Time Number Search Worksheets
Review how to find elapsed time and practise learned skills with engaging Elapsed Time Number Search 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 Time Printable Games for Year 2
Help your students learn to tell time to the 5 minutes with this set of 6 printable Telling the Time games.
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Calculating Elapsed Time - Practice Sheets
Calculate elapsed time with a variety of scaffolded elapsed time worksheets.
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Four in a Row - Tell the Time Clock Game -Hour and Half Hour
Play a Four in a Row Telling Time Game to demonstrate the ability to tell time to the nearest hour and half hour.
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Elapsed Time Worksheet
Determine how much time has passed with this collection of elapsed time word problems.
- Measurement Worksheets
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- Measurement Teaching Presentations
- 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