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Miles & Kilometres

Your child can convert between miles and kilometres using 5 miles is about 8 km. So 40 miles is roughly 64 km.

In curriculum terms

Convert between miles and kilometres using the approximate relationship (5 miles ≈ 8 km)

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How to tell they’ve got it

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Try this together

If your child is driving 40 miles to a theme park, can they use the rule that 5 miles ≈ 8 km to estimate roughly how many kilometres that is?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on
Metric & Imperial Conversionages 9–10Miles↔km conversion extends Y5 imperial/metric approximation
Decimal place valueages 10–11Conversion factor 1.6 involves decimal multiplication
Miles & Kilometresthis skill · ages 10–11
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Curriculum alignment

Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.

This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1). No NSW K–6 outcome code matched (v0.1). No Victorian Curriculum 2.0 code matched (v0.1).

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