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Informal Measurement - Task Cards
A set of task cards to use when learning about informal measurement.
This teaching resource provides 48 task cards with hands on activities around informal measurement.
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Use these activity ideas for group rotations or as a whole class activity. Referenced and helpful activity resources included below.
Recommended to use Teach Starter’s Informal Measurement Unit Lessons.
National Curriculum Curriculum alignment
- Early Years Foundation Stage
- Key Stage 1 (KS1)
Key Stage 1 (KS1) covers students in Year 1 and Year 2.
- Key Stage 2 (KS2) - Lower
Key Stage 2 (KS2) - Lower covers students in Year 3 and Year 4.
- Mathematics
The principal focus of mathematics teaching in key stage 1 is to ensure that pupils develop confidence and mental fluency with whole numbers, counting and place value. This should involve working with numerals, words and the four operations, includin...
- Measurement
- Geometry
- Properties of shapes
- Mathematics
The principal focus of mathematics teaching in lower key stage 2 is to ensure that pupils become increasingly fluent with whole numbers and the four operations, including number facts and the concept of place value. This should ensure that pupils dev...
- Measurement
- Geometry
- Properties of shapes
- Mathematics
- Shape, space and measures
Children use everyday language to talk about size, weight, capacity, position, distance, time and money to compare quantities and objects and to solve problems. They recognise, create and describe patterns. They explore characteristics of every...

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