Long creatures

A thinking mathematically context for practise focused on comparing and ordering length.

Adapted from NRICH.

Syllabus

Syllabus outcomes and content descriptors from Mathematics K–10 Syllabus (2022) © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2024.

Outcomes

  • MAO-WM-01 
  • MAE-GM-02

Collect resources

You will need:

  • cardboard (cut into thin strips)
  • craft materials
  • pencils or markers
  • your mathematics workbook.

Instructions

  • Fold the strips into different lengths.
  • Decorate your cardboard strips to help them come to life!
  • Order your creatures from the shortest to tallest (for example).
  • Draw your creatures in your mathematics workbook.

Series of images of cardboard strips that folded into creatures with various lengths Series of images of cardboard strips that folded into creatures with various lengths
Image: Series of images of cardboard strips that folded into creatures with various lengths

Reflection

  • Do you agree with this way of ordering from tallest to shortest.
  • Explain why or why not?

More instructions

  • Choose your shortest creature and one of your longer creatures.
  • How many short creatures are needed to be the same height as the taller creature?
  • Draw a picture to show you measuring how tall the creature is that you just measured.

Share/submit

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  • write comments​
  • share pictures of your work​
  • comment on the work of others.

Category:

  • Early Stage 1
  • Geometric measure
  • Mathematics (2022)

Business Unit:

  • Curriculum and Reform
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