Length and height - Problem solving with lengths - Worksheet

The worksheets provided focus on enhancing children's ability to solve problems involving lengths and heights, aligned with the National Curriculum objectives. These educational resources aim to help students compare and solve practical problems, encouraging them to describe lengths and heights using terms such as long, short, taller, double, and half. The materials required for these activities include differentiated worksheets, teaching slides, and whiteboards with pens. The key vocabulary for the lesson encompasses terms such as length, problem-solving, total, represent, bar model, vertical, horizontal, and difference.

Children will engage in problem-solving exercises that require careful consideration of lengths, where they will need to identify important information and decide on the best way to represent and solve the problems presented. The tasks begin with simple problems involving lengths in multiples of 10 and progress to more complex challenges. Students will use visual aids to help them solve problems, such as determining how much longer one object is than another or calculating the remaining length of an object after a portion has been removed. The worksheets also include reasoning tasks where children must assess the veracity of statements about the order of lengths or the possible heights of objects. Answers are provided to facilitate learning and ensure understanding.