A series of measurement videos presented by a classroom teacher to support teachers and families.
Structure and features
A classroom teacher presents videos on measurement for the following topics:
- perimeter of polygons and converting length units
- circumference of circles and perimeter of sectors
- area units and conversions. Finding the area of squares rectangles and triangles
- area of quadrilaterals
- area of circles, sectors and ellipses
- area of composite shapes
- approximating area of irregular shapes
- approximating the area of irregular shapes using the Simpson's Rule
- surface area of polyhedrons
- surface area of cylinders, cones and spheres
- volume units, volume of prisms and cylinders
- volume of cones, pyramids and spheres
- capacity units and capacity.
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Teacher notes
This is an ordered sequence of measurement videos. Students can revisit earlier videos if they need to recall prerequisite knowledge. Pythagoras Theorem is not explicitly part of this series but is often woven into problem solving in measurement. A learning video series on Pythagoras Theorem is available on this website.
Perimeter of polygons and converting length units
- Find the perimeter
- What is a polygon
- Convert length units
- Perimeter of irregular shapes.
Circumference of circles and perimeter of sectors
- Features of a circle
- What is Pi (𝜋)
- Circumference of a circle
- Perimeter of a sector
- Perimeter of irregular shapes.
Area units and conversions. Finding the area of squares rectangles and triangles
Area of quadrilaterals
- Area of parallelograms, trapezia, rhombi and kites.
Area of circles, sectors and ellipses
- Features of circles
- Sectors and ellipses
- Deriving the formulae for area of circles
- Finding the area of circles, sectors, and ellipses.
Area of composite shapes
- Brief revision of area
- Converting units of area
- What composite shapes
- Examples finding the area of composite shapes.
Approximating area of irregular shapes
- What are irregular shapes
- How to approximate area with simple mathematical shapes
- Estimate area using approximation.
Approximating the area of irregular shapes using the Simpson's Rule
- Estimate the area of irregular shapes using the Simpson’s rule
- This Simpson’s Rule is derived using integral calculus, which is beyond the scope of the video.
Surface area of polyhedrons
- What is surface area
- What are polyhedrons (specifically prisms and pyramids), nets and composite shapes.
Surface area of cylinders, cones and spheres
- What is the surface area of a solid with curved surface
- Surface area of cylinders, spheres, cones: composite shapes.
Volume units, volume of prisms and cylinders
- What is volume
- Converting units of volume
- Volume of different types of prisms and cylinders
- Examples are oblique prisms and cylinders.
Volume of cones, pyramids and spheres
- Revise what is volume
- How to convert units of volume
- Volume of pyramids, cones and spheres.
Capacity units and capacity
- Revise what is volume
- What is capacity
- Volume-capacity connection
- Examples converting units of capacity and calculating capacity.
