9+Swan

Homework due Tuesday 29 October
Pages 90-92 in Homework book

Homework due Thursday 22 October
Pages 97-99 in Homework Book

Measurement is previous topic
Estimation is an important part of measurement. If you have benchmarks you have a rough idea of a quantity, but the next stage is to be able to decide how many times your benchmark would fit into the quantity that you need to estimate. Go to the [|Phet Estimation Game] and do some training now!

For more information about the prefixes used in metric measurment:

HOMEWORK Assignment.
You will have been given a copy of the sheet in class. You need to choose at least two questions to investigate. The first question will be from the section

Measurement that matters
and it will have been done in class. The second question will be from the other section. You need to investigate it and email your final answers to janb@queens.school.nz. The following document has a sample question and answer.


 * This homework must be emailed to janb@queens.school.nz no later than Saturday 19 Sept at 5pm.**

To be able to estimate measurements it is important that you develop “benchmarks” eg I know that I live 0.9km from school, and this helps me if I am asked to estimate the distance to my nearest petrol station because I can compare it to my “benchmark” for 900m and decide that since it is a bit less than ½ of the distance to school it will be about 500m away.
 * HOMEWORK FOR THURSDAY 3 SEPT **

Your homework task is to either explain the benchmark you already use, or find out the measurement of something familiar that you can use as a benchmark in the future, for each of the following metric measuring units**. (1) mm or cm (2) m or km (3) ml (4) l (litres) (5) g (6) kg (7) cm2  (8) m2 **
 * (9) ha (10) °C **

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