What we are learning in maths!

At the moment we are learning about measurement.

We have been learning
- what is the difference between standard and non-standard units and which is better to use
- what the units stand for (cm means centimetre, m means meters, km means kilometre)
- which is bigger or smaller
- how many mm fit in 1cm, how many cms fit in 1m, and how many m's fit in 1km.
- how to convert between units (e.g. changing 2,500m to 2.5km).

One day we went outside to practise drawing what we thought 1mm, 1cm and 1m looked like/how big they were. Some of us weren't sure but we learnt that 1cm is about the width of your finger and 1m is about the length of your arms.

 (Our first ideas...)

1m = width of your arms

1cm = width of your finger.

Two boys figured out that if two people laid next to each other with arms outstretched, it makes 2m. 

So then we tried to make it as long as we could, even trying to see how long the court is if we measured using our arm-spans. 

We have been practising in class how to convert between different units.

We had a DMIC question about measurement - 

And we shared our working on the board.

Then we practised saying which one is bigger by converting all the numbers to the same unit so we could compare them.