Meaningful Moments: 'Ruler of the World' Game

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• creativity
• problem solving

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description:

Year 4 Mathematics:

• Recognise ways of measuring and approximating the perimeter and area of shapes and enclosed spaces, using appropriate formal and informal units (AC9M4M02)

Relevant parts of Year 4 Mathematics achievement standards: Students measure and approximate perimeters and areas. 

NSW Syllabus outcomes: MA3-1WM

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Numeracy

• a ruler for each student
• device capable of sharing a YouTube video with the class
• teacher preparation: Pre-measure the items for the challenge so that you know the correct answer.

This is an original Cool+ lesson.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - requires preparation from the teacher to pre-measure the items for the challenge so that you know the correct answer. Will also need to assist students throughout the measurement tasks.

We don’t have any related professional courses for this lesson at the moment, but we do have heaps of other Cool professional learning here.