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Core concept: Different volumes can be compared using direct comparison of attributes.
Learning Intention:
Learning Intention:
Students are learning that:
Students are learning that:
- different attributes are measured in different ways
- internal volume (capacity) is a measure of how much a container can hold
- filling and pouring helps to compare the internal volume of containers
- visualisation (mathematical imagination) can be used to estimate a measurement.
Success Criteria:
Success Criteria:
Students can:
Students can:
- compare capacities using comparative language such as will hold more, will hold less, full, empty, or the same
- measure accurately
- make predictions of which containers hold more, less or the same.
Daily number sense: 5 on a double decker bus – 15 minutes
Daily number sense: 5 on a double decker bus – 15 minutes
Which container holds more? – 20 minutes
Which container holds more? – 20 minutes
We are going to investigate which containers hold more by pouring liquid from one container to another.
We are going to investigate which containers hold more by pouring liquid from one container to another.
Pour from one container to another.
Pour from one container to another.
What is being measured when comparing the containers?
What is being measured when comparing the containers?
Explain that internal volume (capacity) is the measure of how much the container can hold.
Explain that internal volume (capacity) is the measure of how much the container can hold.
Activity: Display a range of containers that look different. Students predict which containers will hold the most, and which will hold the least and provide reasons why.
Activity: Display a range of containers that look different. Students predict which containers will hold the most, and which will hold the least and provide reasons why.
Allow time to experiment by comparing containers directly by filling one and pouring into another. Monitor vocabulary to narrate students as they fill the container until it is ‘filled to the brim’.
Allow time to experiment by comparing containers directly by filling one and pouring into another. Monitor vocabulary to narrate students as they fill the container until it is ‘filled to the brim’.
Consolidation and meaningful practice:
Consolidation and meaningful practice:
Internal volume (capacity) is a measure of how much a container can hold.
Internal volume (capacity) is a measure of how much a container can hold.
Filling and pouring helps to compare the internal volume of containers e.g. 'holds more', 'holds less', 'holds the same'.
Filling and pouring helps to compare the internal volume of containers e.g. 'holds more', 'holds less', 'holds the same'.
Visualisation (mathematical imagination) can be used to estimate a measurement.
Visualisation (mathematical imagination) can be used to estimate a measurement.
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