Mathematics / Level 5 / Measurement and Geometry / Using units of measurement
Content description
Choose appropriate units of measurement for length, area, volume, capacity and mass
Elaborations
recognising that some units of measurement are better suited for some tasks than others, for example kilometres rather than metres to measure the distance between two towns
investigating alternative measures of scale to demonstrate that these vary between countries and change over time. For example, temperature measurement in Australia, Indonesia, Japan and USA
