Length homework

Ideas (remember you don't have to do all of these, they are just some ideas to get you started, so pick the ones that you find most interesting):

• Measure some things, e.g. around the house, yourself!
• Compare measurements, e.g. the heights of the people in your family
• When in everyday life do we measure things?
• What measuring equipment is there? How do you use it? Does it measure some things better than others?
• What are the different units of measure? e.g. metres
• What is the conversion between units of measure? e.g. 100cm = 1m
• Practise converting measures, e.g. 234cm = 2m 34cm or 2.34m
• Find out about imperial units of measure, e.g. inches
• Survey your family to find out which units of measure they prefer to use, e.g. inches or cm
• Find out about how things were measured in the past, e.g. how did the Ancient Egyptians measure things?