Area

= AREA =

using suitable language associated with measurement attributes, such as ‘tall’ and ‘taller’, ‘heavy’ and ‘heavier’, ‘holds more’ and ‘holds less’  ||   Use direct and indirect comparisons to decide which is longer, heavier or holds more, and explain reasoning in everyday language (ACMMG006)   || comparing areas using the palm of the hand or a stone comparing capacities using a range of containers  ||   Compare and order several shapes and objects based on length, area, volume and capacity using appropriate uniform informal units (ACMMG037)   || comparing volume using centicubes  ||   Compare objects using familiar metric units of area and volume (ACMMG290)   || exploring efficient ways of finding the areas of rectangles, such as recognising that counting the number of square centimetres in a grid gives the same result as multiplying the length and width  ||   Calculate the perimeter and area of rectangles using familiar metric units (ACMMG109)   || investigating alternative measures of scale to demonstrate that these vary between countries and change over time, for example temperature measurement in Australia, Indonesia, Japan and USA  ||   Choose appropriate units of measurement for length, area, volume, capacity and mass (ACMMG108)   ||
 * ~  YEAR LEVEL   ||~   MATHEMATICS STRANDS   ||~   MATH SUB-STRANDS   ||~   ELEMENT CODE   ||~   ELABORATION   ||~   ELEMENT   ||
 * 0F  ||   Measurement and Geometry   ||   Using units of measurement (F-10)   ||   (ACMMG006)   ||   comparing objects directly, by placing one object against another to determine which is longer or by pouring from one container into the other to see which one holds more
 * 2  ||   Measurement and Geometry   ||   Using units of measurement (F-10)   ||   (ACMMG037)   ||   comparing lengths using finger length, hand span or a piece of string
 * 4  ||   Measurement and Geometry   ||   Using units of measurement (F-10)   ||   (ACMMG290)   ||   comparing areas using grid paper
 * 5  ||   Measurement and Geometry   ||   Using units of measurement (F-10)   ||   (ACMMG109)   ||   exploring efficient ways of calculating the perimeters of rectangles such as adding the length and width together and doubling the result
 * 5  ||   Measurement and Geometry   ||   Using units of measurement (F-10)   ||   (ACMMG108)   ||   recognising that some units of measurement are better suited for some tasks than others, for example kilometres rather than metres to measure the distance between two towns
 * 6  ||   Measurement and Geometry   ||   Using units of measurement (F-10)   ||   (ACMMG137)   ||   recognising and investigating familiar objects using concrete materials and digital technologies   ||   Solve problems involving the comparison of lengths and areas using appropriate units (ACMMG137)   ||
 * 6  ||   Measurement and Geometry   ||   Using units of measurement (F-10)   ||   (ACMMG135)   ||   recognising the equivalence of measurements such as 1.25 metres and 125 centimetres   ||   Connect decimal representations to the metric system (ACMMG135)   ||