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• Select and use appropriate non-standard units to measure height. Discuss reasons for
choice.
• Present simple problems: How can we find out which is taller, the blue building or the
green building? Which unit will we use (brick, cubes or pencils)?

Teacher questions
The following are a sample of the questions that you could ask the children as they
work and converse in groups. You circulate the classroom, asking the questions, as they
measure, record and respond with answers and suggestions to you.
• How many bricks high is the orange building? Guess and check, then record.
• How many bricks high is the dark blue building? Guess and check, then record.

• How many bricks high is the red building? Guess and check, then record.
• Which building do you think is the tallest?
• Which building is the smallest?
• How many bricks high is the yellow building?
• Guess how many bricks high is the green building? Now check by measuring.
• Guess how many bricks high is the light blue building? Measure and record.
• Finish these sentences:
◊ The dark blue building is taller than the ______ building
◊ The light blue building is smaller than the _______ building by ___bricks

◊ The red building is taller than the ______ building but smaller than the ______ building.
How can you be sure? How can you prove it?

Other activities
• Have children make other oral comparative statements about the buildings. Record
some of these statements of the children together in writing e.g. Jacinta thinks the
yellow building is taller than the orange building. (Is she correct? How can we be sure?)
• Make comparisons: The dark blue building is tall, the red building is taller but the green
building is the tallest
• Combining buildings: The light blue building and the yellow building are ___bricks tall
altogether. The orange and yellow buildings are ____bricks tall / high altogether.

• Extension Ideas:
◊ Instead of bricks, use another non-standard unit of measurement to measure the
height of the buildings e.g. compare bears, crayons, other cubes, lollipop sticks etc.
Which items are better to use?
◊ Use the bricks to measure and compare the height of other objects around the
classroom
◊ Use lollipop sticks to measure the height of objects and make comparisons

Six Bricks, together with the software, the A3 mats and your other resources are a great
way to explore length in a solid practical way.

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