Weights and measurements

Understanding and using a range of skills to calculate weights and measures is a core numeracy skill that your child will keep returning to over their primary school years.
In this section of the site you'll find lots of weights and measurements worksheets on all the key areas of learning, including using the language of measurement, estimating and reading measurements of length, weight and capacity, reading scales, using standard and non-standard units, comparing lengths, calculating perimeter and area and measuring volume.
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Reading measurements
Can you read measurements in grams and kilograms? Do you know your litres from your millilitres? Can you measure in centimetres and metres? Let's find out.
Reading measurements: weight
Reading measurements: capacity
Reading measurements: length
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