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Lil’ sister

A three-act task that compares the height of two sisters. Elicit thinking in students about what information, strategies and/or tools will help to solve the problem.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Foundation, Year 1
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource, Student task
Format	Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Mathematics investigation
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Measurement
Topics	Length
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9MFM01 Identify and compare attributes of objects and events, including length, capacity, mass and duration, using direct comparisons and communicating reasoning AC9M1M01 Compare directly and indirectly and order objects and events using attributes of length, mass, capacity and duration, communicating reasoning
Numeracy progression	Understanding units of measurement (P2, P3)
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Organisation	G Fletchy
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