Year 2 Sense of measure - capacity, volume and mass worksheet

“Measuring in Every Direction” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 2 maths unit “Sense of measure - capacity, volume and mass”, for children aged 6 to 7, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 34 to 36 of the year, 10 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Measuring in Every Direction

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 2 · Maths · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can measure length, height and distance by lining up equal objects with no gaps.

A Look back3 min

1.
Count on in tens: 30, 40, , 60
2.
4 tens and 7 ones make
3.
58 85

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ola lines up cubes from one end of her pencil to the other, with no gaps.

A tidy wooden desk with a plain yellow pencil and a pencil case

Watch me

Start at the 0 mark, at one end of the pencil.

Count the gaps between the marks to the other end.

The pencil is 6 cubes long.

Now you

1.
A pen is lined up with cubes from one end to the other. The pen is cubes long.

C Your turn6 min

Each strip is a line of cubes laid end to end with no gaps. Count the gaps between the marks.

1.
The stick is cubes long.
2.
The stick is cubes long.
3.
The stick is cubes long.
4.
The rope is cubes long.

Say it out loud: What changes as the line gets longer, and what stays the same?

D Spot the mistake3 min

Ben says: “My rubber is 8 cubes long, because I counted 8 marks.”

1.
How many cubes long is Ben’s rubber really?

E Think deeper3 min

Read the words carefully. Use the strip to help you think.

1.
A stick is more than 5 cubes long and less than 9 cubes long. Write every number of cubes it could be.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Measuring in Every Direction · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. 50

2. 47

3. <

B

1. 9 If your child says 10, they counted every mark, starting at 0. Count the gaps between the marks instead.

C

1. 4

2. 7

3. 12

4. 16 If your child says 17, they counted every mark, starting at 0. Point to each gap and count the gaps only.

D

1. 7 If your child says 8, they counted the marks, including the mark at 0. Count the gaps between the marks.

E

1. 6, 7 and 8 If your child leaves out a number, check each mark between the two limits. If your child includes the limits, ask whether more than and less than allow equal.

Words to use

Say“Count the gaps between the marks, not the marks.”

Instead of“Tell them the answer straight away.”

After the sheet

Lay coins edge to edge along a book, with no gaps, then say the number of coins out loud.

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The rest of this unit

9 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Same Unit, Same Answer(with a plan)
Metres and centimetres(with a plan)
Reading the ruler(with a plan)
Which length is longer?(with a plan)
Grams and kilograms(with a plan)
Which is heavier?(with a plan)
Litres and millilitres(with a plan)
Which holds more?(with a plan)
How hot is it?(with a plan)

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