Students are introduced to a variety of attributes of measurement as they begin to explore 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes. Volume acts as a key attribute that helps discern the space taken up by a 3-dimensional object and is a strong focus in upper Primary.
Children from F-3 undertaking the Victorian and Australian mathematics curriculum explore the foundations of volumetric thinking through capacity - the maximum amount of something that an object can hold.
Strong emphasis is placed on the ability to develop volumetric language and to apply this by comparing the capacities of objects, first with uniform informal units such as cups, scoops, jugs and spoonfuls; and moving towards familiar metric units such as litres, millilitres and cubic metres.