1st grade Measurements
Measurements syllabus for 1st grade
1st grade: Measurements
Our Measurement topics for 1st grade cover a variety of measurement skills including ordering and comparing standard units of length, weight and volume. There are topics relating to telling the time and comparing durations of events. Money topics involve recognizing coins, ordering coins by value and simple addition and subtraction using monetary values.
9 sub categories including:
- Compare: height
Topics related to measuring the height of people including determining who in a group is shortest, and ordering heights from shortest to tallest. - Compare: length
Topics that involve ordering and comparing lengths in standard decimal units. - Compare: weight/mass
Topics that involve ordering and comparing weights of people and items in standard decimal units. Weights are compared using inequality symbols, and in "Double the weight" pupils must select the item that is double the weight of another item. - Telling the time
Topics that involve telling the time given analogue clock faces. Pupils are requested to select the correct time from lists for each clock-face for "On the hour", "Half past", "Quarter past" and "Quarter to the hour". In the sub-category "Compare: time", topics compare race times and arrival times to find who ran fastest or arrived latest. - Money
Topics involve ordering, comparing, adding and subtracting monetary amounts in coins and small-denomination notes.
Measurements topics by sub-category
1st grade → Measurements → Estimating
Estimate the weight
Estimate or guess the approximate weight of the objects
Estimate the length
Estimate or guess the approximate length of these objects and animals
Estimate the temperature
Estimate or guess the approximate temperature of these things
1st grade → Measurements → Compare: height
Who is taller?
Look at the heights of two people and say who is taller
Who is shortest?
Look at the heights of 3 players and say who is the shortest
Half the height
Look at the heights of 4 people including Sam and say who is half the height of Sam
Order heights from shortest to tallest
Choose the correct order for these heights from shortest to tallest
1st grade → Measurements → Compare: length
Compare lengths
Compare lengths in standard units and choose which items is longer
Use symbols to compare lengths
Choose a symbol to say if the first length is longer, shorter or equal to the second length
Order these lengths
Choose the correct order for these lengths from shortest to longest
1st grade → Measurements → Compare: weight/mass
Who is heavier?
Look at the weights of two players and say who is heavier
Which is lighter?
Look at the weights of two objects and say which is lighter
Double the weight
For each set of items, pick the item that is double the weight of the named item
Use symbols to compare weights
Choose a symbol to say if A is heavier, lighter or equal in weight to B
Order these weights
Choose the correct order for these weights from lightest to heaviest
1st grade → Measurements → Compare: volume
Words that describe how full or empty
Choose the best words to describe how full or empty the containers are
Order volumes: smallest to largest
Choose the correct order for these litre and millilitre volumes from smallest to largest
1st grade → Measurements → Measuring objects
Which units should you use
Choose the correct units for taking these measurements
Measure volume in millilitres
Look at the container and choose the correct volume of liquid in it
1st grade → Measurements → Telling the time
On the hour
Use the clock to choose the correct time
Half past the hour
Use the clock to choose the correct time
Quarter past the hour
Use the clock to choose the correct time
Quarter to the hour
Use the clock to choose the correct time
1st grade → Measurements → Compare: time
Who runs the fastest
Compare the times of the runners and find who ran the fastest time
Which car will arrive later?
Compare departure and journey times and say which car will arrive later
Arrive am or pm?
Work out whether a family will arrive before midday (am) or after midday (pm)
1st grade → Measurements → Money
Add coins worth up to 10¢
Add up these coins with values up to 10¢ and say how much they are worth in total
Add coins of any denomination
Identify the value of these sets of coins of any denomination
Add money in dollars and cents
Add quantities of coins and notes in dollars and cents
Take away coins worth up to 10¢
Subtract sets of coins with denominations up to 10¢ and say how much is left
Subtract coins worth up to 50¢
Subtract sets of coins with denominations of up to 50¢ and say how much is left
Work out the change from $1
Use subtraction to work out how much change there will be from $1 when the item is purchased
Counting * Comparing numbers * Pattern * Place value * Addition * Subtraction * Add + Subtract * Multiplication * Division * Multiply + Divide * Fractions * Measurements * Shapes * Position + Direction * Statistics *
