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Week 24: Measuring and Comparing

Measuring and comparing. Children learn longer, taller and heavier by comparing real things first.

What your child is practicing

Comparing length and height
Heavier and lighter
Measuring with cubes

This week's worksheets

Printable worksheet with groups of bars of different lengths for circling the longest or shortest

Early Math
~10 min

Longer and Shorter

Look at bars of different lengths and circle the longest or mark the shortest.

Printable worksheet with groups of towers of different heights for circling the tallest or shortest

Early Math
~10 min

Taller and Shorter

Circle the tallest tower or mark the shortest in each group.

Printable worksheet with seesaws holding pairs of pictures where a child circles the heavier or lighter one

Early Math
~10 min

Heavier and Lighter

Look at each seesaw and circle the heavier or lighter thing.

Printable worksheet with bars above a row of cubes where a child counts how many cubes long each bar is

Early Math
~10 min

Measure with Cubes

Count how many cubes long each bar is and write the number.

Try it off paper: Measure with anything

Measure the couch in shoes, a book in blocks, a table in hands. Compare answers.

Parent tip

Let them predict first: "Will it take more or fewer than ten?" Then measure to check.