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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How to tell they’ve got it
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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?
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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 the length of shapes and objects using informal units, recognising that units need to be uniform and used end-to-end
measure and compare objects using familiar metric units of length, mass and capacity, and instruments with labelled markings
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
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.