Toy Measurements

This maths teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise using non-standard measurements and one hundred gram masses to measure, record and compare the mass of some different toys and games.

The class can explain and model how to use some bucket balance scales to support measuring and comparing the mass of different objects against one hundred gram weights.

Download this teaching pack including classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise using non-standard measurements and one hundred gram masses to measure, record and compare the mass of some different toys and games

Activities in this teaching pack include differentiated worksheets to identify and record how to use non-standard measurements for support ability levels, one hundred gram masses for core ability levels and fifty gram masses for extension ability levels to measure and compare the mass of different types of toys and games.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use non-standard measurements and one hundred gram masses to measure the mass of different toys.

This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to explain and model how to measure, record and compare the mass of some different toys and games using scales, bucket balances and symbols for greater than and less than. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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