Capacity and volume
Measure and begin to record capacity and volume using non-standard and standard units
Lesson
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Measure capacity in repeated cups and recognise litres as a standard unit.
Before teaching
Count pours one at a time and compare full/part-full. Adult supervises water; never taste unknown contents.
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Measure capacity in repeated cups and recognise litres as a standard unit.
Measure capacity in repeated cups and recognise litres as a standard unit.
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Illustrative Mathematics · Practice link — not the full lesson
Banana Bread
Before you open · source notes
Banana Bread supports capacity and volume with a rectangular pan context. Not every liquid-conversion chart alone.
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Before you openAsk the learner to explain the pan volume using length, width, and height.
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Public Illustrative Mathematics task page. The .html address responds HTTP 308 to this URL. An anonymous GET of this URL on 2026-11-12 returned HTTP 200 with no login or payment prompt. Where a teacher solution is present, it is on the same page as the student task; this check did not find a separate locked student view. An adult can use the student view section and should not read a solution aloud. Advertising was not observed in the fetched HTML text; that is not a browser, device, or ad-free guarantee. This is a paper or discussion task, not an automatically marked interactive game. Opening the link does not save practice or assess mastery. Diagrams on the page use missing or filename-only alt text, so they are not an accessible image equivalent. Accessibility still depends on an adult describing the picture.
Illustrative Mathematics. “Banana Bread.” Licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. External task; Gakuva does not copy, host, embed, or redistribute it.
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Check understanding
- Measure capacity by counting how many cups fill a container
- Begin to use litres as a unit of capacity
- Record capacity measurements with a number and unit
“If your child fills a jug using a small cup, can they count how many cups it takes — and understand that this tells you how much the jug holds?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Procedural
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Domain
- Measurement
- Age range
- Ages 5–13
Standards