Measuring Length in Year 1

The National Curriculum Programme of Study states that: Pupils should be taught to: * compare, describe and solve practical problems for lengths and heights (e.g. long/short, longer/shorter, tall/short, double/half) * measure and begin to record lengths and heights This is very much practical in nature, with children comparing the lengths...

Measuring Length in Year 2

In Year 2 children will be expected to measure using the standard unit of centimetres and be familiar with the abbreviation ‘cm’. Lining up a ruler to start from zero rather than the edge or 1 cm mark is essential to get accurate measurements.Children will also begin to measure larger...

Measuring Length in Year 3

Children are introduced to millimetres in Year 3 and they will understand that millimetres can be used to measure lengths that are not an exact number of centimetres. Measurement should be recorded as a number of centimetres and millimetres e.g. ‘the pencil is 6 cm and 4 mm long’.Children are...

Measuring Length in Year 4

More work is done with measuring using kilometres this year, using the knowledge that there are 1,000 metres in a kilometre.Converting between units is an important part of the Year 4 Programme of Study for Measurement. For instance, children should be able to convert kilometres to metres or centimetres to...

Measurement in Year 5

The metric system takes centre stage in the Year 5 Measurement Programme of Study, emphasising the importance of converting between different units of metric measures. By the end of Year 5 children should know the following relationships between metric units:*1 kilometre = 1,000 metres**1 metre = 100 centimetres or 1,000...

Measurement in Year 6

There are some very hard concepts involved with Measurement in Year 6. Conversion of units of measurement continues to be a key element, and it is suggested that converting between units such as kilometres and miles is done graphically. Converting metric units should be done with up to 3 decimal...