Assessment tasks: metric units and relationship to decimals
Use the diagnostic tasks, Page sections and Decimals and measures, to assess a student’s understanding of metric units and their relationship to decimals.
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| Year level(s) | Year 6 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Assessment advice, Assessment task |
| Format | Downloadable resources |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Questioning, Feedback |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Strand and focus | Measurement |
| Topics | Using units of measurement, Decimals |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M6M01
Convert between common metric units of length, mass and capacity; choose and use decimal representations of metric measurements relevant to the context of a problem |
| Numeracy progression |
Understanding units of measurement (P8)
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Copyright details |
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| Organisation | Department of Education WA |
| Copyright | © Department of Education WA 2013. Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 |
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