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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Time Unit Conversions Dominoes
Practice converting units of time with a fun game of Time Conversion Dominoes!
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Telling Time to the Minute – Kaboom Game
Practise telling time to the minute with an exciting game of Telling Time Kaboom!
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Finding Volume – Teaching Slides for Year 7
Teach your students how to find the volume of a rectangular prism by counting unit cubes and using a formula with this set of teaching slides designed for year 7 students.
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Area of a Parallelogram Worksheet
Practise finding the area of a parallelogram with this maths worksheet designed for year 7 students.
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Area of a Triangle - Maths Game
Practice finding and comparing the area of a triangle with a game of WAR!
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Telling Time Puzzle - To the Minute
A fun puzzle to use when learning how to tell the time to the minute.
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Number Talks - Geometry Task Cards
Build geometric reasoning with this set of 24 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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Which Is Heavier? – Interactive PowerPoint
An interactive PowerPoint quiz that asks students to compare the mass of various everyday objects.
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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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Volume Vocabulary Poster
A poster that explains the concept of volume and lists associated vocabulary.
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Jack and the Beanstalk - Informal Measurement Worksheet
A simple worksheet using informal units measurement.
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Developing a Timetable Task
An open-ended task to practise developing a daily timetable of activities.
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Volume of 3D Objects Poster
A poster highlighting the formula for finding the volume of common 3D objects.
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Time to the Minute Poke Cards
Practise reading analogue clocks and telling time to the minute with this set of self-checking poke cards.
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Months of the Year Playdough Mats
Use playdough mats to help your students identify, sequence and spell the months of the year.
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Find the Missing Side Worksheet
Use this missing side perimeter worksheet to help your students find the missing sides on a collection of rectangles and squares.
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Drawing Perimeter with Informal Units Worksheet
Get students to draw a figure with a given perimeter with this perimeter of rectangles worksheet.
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Measuring Perimeter with Informal Units Worksheet
Use these perimeter worksheets to give your students practice finding the perimeter of rectangles.
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Finding the Perimeter of a Rectangle Poster
Teach students the formula for the perimeter of a rectangle with this colorful classroom poster for your math bulletin board.
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Halloween Area and Perimeter Colour by Number Worksheet
Use these Halloween colour-by-number worksheets to practise identifying the perimeter and area of regular polygons.
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Area of a Parallelogram – Differentiated Maths Mazes
Determine the area of different parallelograms with a set of differentiated maths mazes.
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Area of a Triangle – Task Cards
Use multiplication and division skills to determine the area of a triangle with this set of 24 task cards.
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I Have, Who Has? – Time to the Minute
Practise telling time to the nearest minute with this set of 'I Have, Who Has' game cards.
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Five Wonders Theme Park: Slither House Sketch – Project
An inquiry project that encourages students to research animals and their habitats and design a reptile house in a theme park.
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How Much Does It Measure? Match-Up Activity (Mixed Units of Measurement)
A set of 24 match-up cards to reinforce a range of measurement concepts.
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When Does It Happen? Worksheet
A cut and paste activity where students order familiar daily events.
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Let's Get Measuring – Paper Clips Templates
A set of templates to use when learning about informal units of length.
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Five Wonders Theme Park: Wonderful Expansion – Project
An engaging project that students can use to design their own additional theme for Five Wonders Theme Park.
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Volume Investigation - Creating the Land of Cubes
A mathematics investigation involving volume, embedded in a real-world context.
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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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Volume Worksheets
3 volume worksheets.
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