Measuring length
Your child can order three objects by length. They can use a piece of string to compare two things that will not sit side by side.
In curriculum terms
Order three objects by length and compare the lengths of two objects indirectly using a third object
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How to tell they’ve got it
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Try this together
If your child has three pencils of different lengths but can only compare two at a time, can they figure out which is longest — by using a third pencil as a go-between?
Where this sits on the map
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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
measure and compare objects using familiar metric units of length, mass and capacity, and instruments with labelled markings
compare directly and indirectly and order objects and events using attributes of length, mass, capacity and duration, communicating reasoning
measure the length of shapes and objects using informal units, recognising that units need to be uniform and used end-to-end
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.