Over the past week, Year 2 have been conducting a mathematical inquiry into measurement. Already we have discovered that different tools and units are needed to measure different things.

We started out investigating the different uses of measurement tools through structured play. We measured all kinds of objects inside the classroom and out in the playground. The boys were driven by their natural curiosity to compare the weights of different objects, measure the lengths of learning spaces and playing areas, and use the sandpit to investigate the capacity of different vessels.

The boys had so much fun that they wanted to measure everything! The boys made a huge collection of ideas about things throughout the world that would be interesting and useful to measure. While practical constraints meant that we couldn’t practise our measuring skills through finding out the height of a volcano, we did narrow down our list to some things that we can measure at school to help us learn about measurement.

Would you like to know how long the school driveway really is? You will have to ask a Year 2 boy to find out, as we measured it three different ways. We even checked our answers, just to be sure!

Stay tuned, because in the coming weeks Year 2 will be answering a whole bunch of Newington based measurement questions that are likely to be weighing heavily on your mind.

Miss Rusten
Year 2 Teacher

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