AC9M3M01 Year 3 Mathematics

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 Mathematics provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

identify which metric units are used to measure everyday items; use measurements of familiar items and known units to make estimates

Elaborations

• 1 examining the packaging on supermarket items to determine the metric unit used to describe the mass or capacity of the contents
• 2 identifying items that have a mass of one kilogram or \(500\) grams, or a capacity of one litre or \(500\) millilitres and using these benchmarks to estimate the mass or capacity of other things, explaining their reasoning
• 3 estimating the height of a tree by comparing it to the height of their friend and quoting the result as “the tree is about \(3\) times as tall”; estimating the capacity of a fish tank by using a litre milk carton as a benchmark
• 4 choosing and using metres to estimate the dimensions of the classroom

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