Metric & Imperial Conversion
Your child knows rough links between units, like 1 inch is about 2.5 cm, or 1 kg is about 2.2 pounds. A 7-pound baby is about 3 kg.
In curriculum terms
Understand and use approximate equivalences between metric units and common imperial units (inches, pounds, pints)
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How to tell they’ve got it
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If your child hears that a baby weighs 7 pounds, can they give a rough idea of that in kilograms — using the approximate conversion they know?
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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
identify which metric units are used to measure everyday items; use measurements of familiar items and known units to make estimates
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.