• MAO-WM-01
  
• MA2-MR-01
• MA2-GM-02

[Black text on a white background reads ‘You will need...’ Bullet points below (read by speaker). Below, in a still colour image, a purple ruler, 2 tape measures, a spotted mug and a black calculator.]

Female speaker

Today, for this activity, you will need measuring tools, for example, a ruler, tape measure, mug, handspan or a teaspoon and recording materials, for example, a workbook and some markers. You will need an object to indicate your height like a stick, spoon or rope. You will also need writing materials which might be paper and a pencil. You will also need a calculator. Let's play!

[White text on a blue background reads ‘Let’s play!’.]

[On a wooden desktop, a white piece of paper has a plastic kangaroo, a yellow frog, a green grasshopper and a black dot on it. Above each one, handwritten text reads, respectively, ‘Kangaroo 4 times’; ‘Frog 20 times’; ‘Grasshopper 30 times’; and ‘Flea 200 times’.]

Female speaker

Hi, mathematicians. Did you know that a kangaroo can jump 4 times its height? A frog can jump 20 times its height. A grasshopper, 30 times its height. And this little speck here, that's resembling a flea, can jump 200 times its height. And it got me wondering, how far could I jump if I were a kangaroo, a frog, a grasshopper, and a flea? So, today we're going to investigate how far we could jump if we were these animals.

[On a double sheet of white paper, a colour paper cut-out of a kangaroo. A line at the top has an arrow on each end and a number ‘0’ in the top left. Further steps explained by speaker.]

Female speaker

I've been thinking about what it means when somebody says 4 times as many because the fact is that a kangaroo can jump four times its height. So, I have this picture of a kangaroo here, and I'm going to show what 4 times a kangaroo's height would look like.

I have ruled an empty number line on a blank piece of paper. My number line starts here at zero, and this arrow lets me know that it keeps going down this way. And this arrow lets me know it keeps going up this way. To measure your height, you measure from your top of your head to the bottom of your feet. I'm going to lay the kangaroo on its tummy, and I'm going to line its feet up with where I've marked zero, and then I'm just going to use a marker to draw a line at the top of its ears. Oops.

I'm going to translate this kangaroo and repeat what I just did, lining up its feet, at my last mark, and drawing a line at the tip of its ears. Here, we can see the kangaroo's height being measured out one time. And here, we can see the kangaroo's height being measured out 2 times. Now, what I know about 4 is that double 2 is 4. So, I must repeat this process 2 more times, or double it, and then I will have 4 times the kangaroo's height.

[The 4 marks on the line are converted into rectangles. Text inside each rectangle reads ‘One time’, ‘Two times’; ‘Three times’ and ‘Four times’.]

Female speaker

Here is the final picture showing the kangaroo's height being measured out 4 times. First, we measured the kangaroo's height one time. And it looks like this.

[The speaker uses a black marker to draw a dotted line in an arc to each of the different measurement points.]

Female speaker

Then, we measured the kangaroo's height 2 times, and 2 times the kangaroo's height looks like this. Next, we measured what 3 times the kangaroo's height would be, and that looks like this.

[The speaker places extra cut-out kangaroos for each different measurement on the paper.]

Female speaker

Finally, we measured what 4 times the kangaroo's height would be to show how far it could jump because it can jump 4 times its height. And 4 times the kangaroo's height looks like this. So that means that if this kangaroo were real, it could jump this far. Wow! That is a really long jump.

OK. Over to you, mathematicians, to go and work out your height.

[A blonde woman stands against a wall with her arms by her side. A green piece of paper is stuck on the wall behind her head and a line has been drawn across it to mark the top of her head.]

Female speaker

The first thing I'm going to need to do is find out how tall I am or my height. One thing I know about measuring height is that the measure will stay the same whether I'm standing up or laying down.

[The blonde woman lies on a beige carpet floor. A bright green dog lead is folded up at the top of her head.]

Female speaker

It's easier to measure myself when I'm laying down. So today, I'm laying on the floor with my feet against the wall, and I've placed a lead at the top of my head.

[She uses a mug to measure the space between the lead and the wall.]

Female speaker

I'm now using a mug to measure the distance, from the lead to the wall, and this will tell me my height.

[The speaker holds a white mug above a sheet of blank white paper.]

Female speaker

I've just measured my height, using this mug. And I was 16 mugs and a little bit. Now I need to work out how tall I am using this knowledge.

[The speaker places the mug down and uses a blue marker to write on the paper (as read by speaker).]

Female speaker

If I was 16 mugs and a little... or and a little bit, and I estimated or I estimate...this mug is 10 cm long, I know that 16 10s is 160. And I'm going to record the centimetres because I'm recording my height. And I was about this little bit. I can use my relational knowledge that half of 10 is 5, so is...5 would be around here, I'm going to estimate this little bit as 2 cm. Using this knowledge, I can see I've worked out that I'm around 162 cm tall.

[White text on a blue background reads ‘Over to you!’.]

Female speaker

Alright, mathematicians. Now it's over to you to go and work out your height, and then come on back, and we'll talk about what's next.

[The NSW Government waratah logo turns briefly in the middle of various circles coloured blue, red, white and black. A copyright symbol and small blue text below it reads ‘State of New South Wales (Department of Education), 2021.’]

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[Black text on a white background reads ‘My height is 162cm.’ Above, black text reads ‘NSW Department of Education’. In the bottom right corner, the NSW Government red ‘waratah’ logo. Bullet points below (read by speaker).]

Female speaker

I've just worked out that my height is 162cm. Let's remind ourselves of the problem we're trying to solve today. A kangaroo can jump 4 times its height. How far could you jump if you were a kangaroo? That means that I need to work out what is 4 times 162cm. I know mathematicians use tools to help them. And today I used a calculator to help me solve what four times 162cm is.

[A screenshot of a smartphone calculator (as explained by speaker).]

Female speaker

And as you can see, 4 times 162 is 648. That means that I could jump 648cm if I were a kangaroo. Wow! That is really far. I could also rename that as 6 metres and 48cm or 6.48 metres.

[White text on a blue background reads ‘Over to you!’.]

Female speaker

Over to you now mathematicians, to go and use a calculator to work out what 4 times your height is. And then you will know how far you could jump if you were a kangaroo.

[Black text on a white background reads ‘How far could you jump if you were a…’ Further text below (read by speaker) along with green frogs, green grasshoppers and a line of dots (when mentioned).]

Female speaker

Alright mathematicians, over to you now to go and use a calculator to find out how far you could jump if you were a frog, which can jump 20 times its height. Then work out how far you could jump if you were a grasshopper, which can jump 30 times its height. And then finally work out how far you could jump if you were a flea, which can jump 200 times its height.

[White text on a blue background reads ‘Over to you!’.]

[White text on a blue background reads ‘What’s (some of) the mathematics?’.]

Female speaker

What's some of the mathematics we explored today?

[Black text on a white background reads ‘What’s (some of) the mathematics?’. Further text below (read by speaker). A colour image of a purple ruler, spotted mug, and 2 measuring tapes.]

Female speaker

We can measure and compare lengths using formal and informal units. Today, I use the informal unit of a mug to measure my height.

[An image of colour paper cut-outs of kangaroos positioned on a white sheet of paper.]

Female speaker

We also learnt that when we hear 4 times as many', we have 4 of something, or 4 groups of something.

[The NSW Government waratah logo turns briefly in the middle of various circles coloured blue, red, white and black. A copyright symbol and small blue text below it reads ‘State of New South Wales (Department of Education), 2021.’]

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