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Measuring & Plotting Lengths

Your child can measure lengths and show them on a line plot. They can measure ten leaves and group the ones of the same length.

In curriculum terms

Generate measurement data by measuring lengths to the nearest whole unit and display the data on a line plot

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Try this together

If your child measures the length of ten leaves to the nearest cm and records the results, can they display the data on a simple number-line plot — grouping leaves of the same length?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on
Measuring lengthages 7–8Generating measurement data requires measuring lengths with tools
Sorting into categoriesages 6–8Line plots build on data interpretation skills
Measuring & Plotting Lengthsthis skill · ages 7–8
Unlocks
Halves and quartersages 8–9Line plot with whole numbers is prerequisite to line plots with fractional units
Working with moneyages 7–8Line plots from measurement data exercise modelling

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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

AC9M1M02high confidenceYear 1 · Measurement

measure the length of shapes and objects using informal units, recognising that units need to be uniform and used end-to-end

AC9M3M02medium confidenceYear 3 · Measurement

measure and compare objects using familiar metric units of length, mass and capacity, and instruments with labelled markings

AC9M4M01medium confidenceYear 4 · Measurement

interpret unmarked and partial units when measuring and comparing attributes of length, mass, capacity, duration and temperature, using scaled and digital instruments and appropriate units

NSW syllabus codes & stages only

MA1-GM-02high confidenceMathematics K-10 · Stage 1
MA2-GM-02medium confidenceMathematics K-10 · Stage 2

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2M1M02medium confidenceMathematics · Level 1 · Measurement strand
VC2M4M01medium confidenceMathematics · Level 4 · Measurement strand
VC2M3M02medium confidenceMathematics · Level 3 · Measurement strand

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.

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