Look at two pencils. Pencil A is longer than pencil B.
Which pencil is longer? Write A or B.
Answer: ___
Figure (to be drawn): Two labelled pencils side by side: A is clearly longer than B.
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2
There are 7 toy cars and 3 toy buses on the floor.
Which is longer, the line of 7 cars or the line of 3 buses? Write cars or buses.
Answer: ___
Figure (to be drawn): A row of 7 small toy cars and a row of 3 slightly bigger toy buses drawn so the cars take more space.
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3
Amelia uses paperclips to measure a pencil. She uses 4 paperclips.
How many paperclips long is the pencil? Write a number.
Answer: ___
Figure (to be drawn): A pencil with 4 paperclips shown end to end beside it.
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4
Priya measures a toy dinosaur with cubes. It takes 6 cubes.
Write how many cubes long the dinosaur is.
Answer: ___
Figure (to be drawn): A toy dinosaur with 6 cubes beside it in a line.
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5
Oliwia measures her book with a ruler. The book is 12 cm long.
Write the number of centimetres.
Answer: ___ cm
Figure (to be drawn): A book with a ruler showing 12 cm along its length.
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6
Kwame has two ribbons. One ribbon is 8 cm. The other ribbon is 5 cm.
Which ribbon is shorter? Write 8 cm or 5 cm.
Answer: ___
Figure (to be drawn): Two ribbons labelled 8 cm and 5 cm.
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7
There are three toy blocks in a line. They measure 3 cm, 3 cm and 3 cm.
How long are all three blocks together? Write a number of centimetres.
Answer: ___ cm
Figure (to be drawn): Three identical blocks shown end to end with 3 cm under each.
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8
A crayon is 7 cm. A pencil is 10 cm.
How much longer is the pencil than the crayon? Write a number of centimetres.
Answer: ___ cm
Figure (to be drawn): A crayon labelled 7 cm and a pencil labelled 10 cm.
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9
Put these items in order from shortest to longest.
A) a spoon B) a school ruler C) a pencil
Answer: ___, ___, ___
Figure (to be drawn): Small drawings: spoon, school ruler (30 cm), pencil.
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10
Yusuf measures his toy car with buttons. It takes 5 buttons.
He puts another car next to it. The other car takes 7 buttons. Which car is longer? Write 5 buttons or 7 buttons.
Answer: ___
Figure (to be drawn): Two toy cars with buttons shown: one with 5 buttons, one with 7 buttons.
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11
A giraffe sticker is 15 cm tall. A lion sticker is 12 cm tall.
Which sticker is taller? Write giraffe or lion.
Answer: ___
Figure (to be drawn): Two stickers with heights labelled 15 cm and 12 cm.
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12
Erin lines up 4 cubes. Each cube is 2 cm.
How long are the 4 cubes together? Write a number of centimetres.
Answer: ___ cm
Figure (to be drawn): Four small cubes shown end to end with 2 cm under each.
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13
Which is longer: 10 cm or 10 paperclips? There are 10 small paperclips.
Circle cm or paperclips.
Answer: ___
Figure (to be drawn): A ruler section labelled '10 cm' is shown next to a row of 10 identical paperclips. Each paperclip is about 1.2 cm long, so the row of paperclips measures about 12 cm in total.
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14
A pencil is 9 cm. A rubber is 3 cm.
How many times longer is the pencil than the rubber? Write a number.
Answer: ___
Figure (to be drawn): A pencil labelled 9 cm and a rubber labelled 3 cm.
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15
Callum has a string 14 cm long. He cuts off 5 cm.
How long is the string now? Write a number of centimetres.
Answer: ___ cm
Figure (to be drawn): A string with 14 cm label and a scissors cutting 5 cm off.
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16
Draw a line that is 6 cm long. (Draw in the box.)
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17
There are two frogs. One frog is 4 cm tall. The other frog is 4 cm tall too.
Are the frogs the same height? Write yes or no.
Answer: ___
Figure (to be drawn): Two frog pictures both labelled 4 cm.
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18
How many 2 cm cubes make 10 cm when placed end to end? Write a number.
Answer: ___
Figure (to be drawn): A picture of small cubes with 2 cm under one cube and a box to show 10 cm length to fill.
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Mark scheme · KS1.M23 Measuring Length and Height
Question 1
B1 A cao
Answer: A
Question 2
B1 cars cao
Answer: cars
Question 3
B1 4 cao
Answer: 4
Question 4
B1 6 cao
Answer: 6
Question 5
B1 12 cao
Answer: 12
Question 6
B1 5 cm cao
Answer: 5 cm
Question 7
B1 9 cm cao
Answer: 9
Question 8
B1 3 cm cao
Answer: 3
Question 9
B1 spoon, pencil, school ruler cao
Answer: spoon, pencil, school ruler
Question 10
B1 7 buttons cao
Answer: 7 buttons
Question 11
B1 giraffe cao
Answer: giraffe
Question 12
B1 8 cm cao
Answer: 8
Question 13
B1 paperclips cao
Answer: paperclips
Question 14
B1 3 cao
Answer: 3
Question 15
B1 9 cm cao
Answer: 9
Question 16
B1 Line of approximately 6 cm cao (allow small drawing tolerance)