ICSE Class 5 Maths, Unit 7: Measurement

What this unit aims at

The early learning of measurement is largely inventive and investigative by nature. Children up to primary grades begin with activities to establish the everyday contexts for measurement and to introduce measurement with nonstandard units. This theme will enable children to begin to conserve length and area and understand that these concepts do not change, even when an object’s position or appearance is altered. Children will also learn to use standard units by providing them frequent opportunities to measure objects so that they construct their understanding of units and of the measurement process.

Your child should be able to

• relate different commonly used larger and smaller units of length, weight, time and money and convert larger units to smaller units and vice versa
• estimate the volume of a solid body in known units like volume of a bucket in about 20 times that of a mug
• apply the four operations in solving problems involving money, length, mass, capacity and time intervals
• explain the terms area and perimeter of simple geometrical shapes
• compute area and perimeter of simple geometrical shapes

Key concepts in this unit

• Area and perimeter of simple geometrical shapes; ideas and their measurement.
• Daily life problems involving length, weight, time, money & volume: Use of four number operations.
• Idea of larger and smaller units of length, weight, time, money & volume and conversion .