Strand Overview: Spatial Sense

E1. Geometric and Spatial Reasoning

Describe and represent shape, location, and movement by applying geometric properties and spatial relationships in order to navigate the world around them.

Learning Situation

E2. Measurement

Compare, estimate and determine measurements in various contexts.

Learning Situation

E1. Geometric and Spatial Reasoning

Describe and represent shape, location, and movement by applying geometric properties and spatial relationships in order to navigate the world around them.

Learning Situation

E2. Measurement

Compare, estimate and determine measurements in various contexts.

E1. Geometric and Spatial Reasoning

Describe and represent shape, location, and movement by applying geometric properties and spatial relationships in order to navigate the world around them.

Learning Situation
  • Location and Movement

E2. Measurement

Compare, estimate and determine measurements in various contexts.

Learning Situation
  • Length, Mass, and Capacity

    • E2.1 Use appropriate units of length to estimate, measure, and compare the perimeters of polygons and curved shapes, and construct polygons with a given perimeter.

    • E2.2 Explain the relationships between millimetres, centimetres, metres, and kilometres as metric units of length, and use benchmarks for these units to estimate lengths.

    • E2.3 Use non-standard units appropriately to estimate, measure, and compare capacity, and explain the effect that overfilling or underfilling, and gaps between units, have on accuracy.

    • E2.4 Compare, estimate, and measure the mass of various objects, using a pan balance and non-standard units.

    • E2.5 Use various units of different sizes to measure the same attribute of a given item, and demonstrate that even though using different-sized units produces a different count, the size of the attribute remains the same.

E1. Geometric and Spatial Reasoning

Describe and represent shape, location, and movement by applying geometric properties and spatial relationships in order to navigate the world around them.

Learning Situation
  • Geometric Reasoning

E2. Measurement

Compare, estimate and determine measurements in various contexts.

  • The Metric System

    • E2.1 Explain the relationships between grams and kilograms as metric units of mass, and between litres and millilitres as metric units of capacity, and use benchmarks for these units to estimate mass and capacity.

    • E2.2 Use metric prefixes to describe the relative size of different metric units, and choose appropriate units and tools to measure length, mass, and capacity.

E1. Geometric and Spatial Reasoning

Describe and represent shape, location, and movement by applying geometric properties and spatial relationships in order to navigate the world around them.

Learning Situation
  • Location and Movement

E2. Measurement

Compare, estimate and determine measurements in various contexts.

E1. Geometric and Spatial Reasoning

Describe and represent shape, location, and movement by applying geometric properties and spatial relationships in order to navigate the world around them.

Learning Situation
  • Location and Movement

E2. Measurement

Compare, estimate and determine measurements in various contexts.

  • The Metric System

    • E2.1 Measure length, area, mass, and capacity using the appropriate metric units, and solve problems that require converting smaller units to larger ones and vice versa.

  • Angles

    • E2.2 Use a protractor to measure and construct angles up to 360°, and state the relationship between angles that are measured clockwise and those that are measured counterclockwise.

    • E2.3 Use the properties of supplementary angles, complementary angles, opposite angles, and interior and exterior angles to solve for unknown angle measures.

E1. Geometric and Spatial Reasoning

Describe and represent shape, location, and movement by applying geometric properties and spatial relationships in order to navigate the world around them.

E2. Measurement

Compare, estimate and determine measurements in various contexts.

Learning Situation
  • The Metric System

  • Volume and Surface Area

    • E2.6 Represent cylinders as nets and determine their surface area by adding the areas of their parts.

    • E2.7 Show that the volume of a prism or cylinder can be determined by multiplying the area of its base by its height, and apply this relationship to find the area of the base, volume, and height of prisms and cylinders when given two of the three measurements.

E1. Geometric and Spatial Reasoning

Describe and represent shape, location, and movement by applying geometric properties and spatial relationships in order to navigate the world around them.

Learning Situation
  • Location and Movement

E2. Measurement

Compare, estimate and determine measurements in various contexts.

  • The Metric System

  • Length, Area, and Volume

    • E2.3 Solve problems involving the perimeter, circumference, area, volume, and surface area of composite two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional objects, using appropriate formulas.

    • E2.4 Describe the Pythagorean relationship using various geometric models, and apply the theorem to solve problems involving an unknown side length for a given right triangle.