Measurement Conversions
Your child can solve real problems that need unit conversions. Filling a 60 litre tank at 3.5 litres a minute takes about 17 minutes.
In curriculum terms
Solve problems involving the calculation and conversion of units of measure, using decimal notation and multi-step reasoning in real-world contexts
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Try this together
If your child is filling a fish tank that holds 60 litres and the tap fills it at 3.5 litres per minute, can they work out how long it will take to fill the tank?
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
convert between common metric units of length, mass and capacity; choose and use decimal representations of metric measurements relevant to the context of a problem
choose appropriate metric units when measuring the length, mass and capacity of objects; use smaller units or a combination of units to obtain a more accurate measure
solve problems involving the duration of time including situations involving “am” and “pm” and conversions between units of time
NSW syllabus codes & stages only
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.