estimate and measurement challenge table p%

This afternoon we took tapes, metre sticks, rulers and trundle wheels up to the woods. The children worked in their groups to decide on which piece of equipment / units to use to measure the girth of  a tree, length of the lane etc. I was lucky enough to teach the same class last year and it was great to see the progress they have made since we had a similar lesson twelve months ago. Plenty of interesting discussions about which units to use and how accurate we should be.

We finished with some estimation activities – we used our paces to estimate the length of a section of lane. Most of the children were within 10m of the actual answer – not bad at all!