How long is your table? How tall are you? We can measure with our own hands and feet — counting handspans and footsteps. We learn long and short, tall and short, and how many times a unit fits. Tap a word to start measuring!
Play with it
We measure by counting how many times a unit fits. Tap each word to see how.
Learn
Let us try. A bus and a cycle stand together. Which is longer?
The bus is much longer than the cycle.
Where you'll use it
Standing against a wall, a grown-up can mark your height. Each year you can see how much taller you have grown.
Measuring a shelf in handspans tells you if your new box will fit before you even carry it over.
In a jumping game, count footsteps from the start line. More footsteps means a longer jump!
Check yourself
A friendly set of questions about long and short, tall and short, handspans, footsteps and fair measuring.
Interactive built to the OpenMAIC approach (THU-MAIC, MIT). Concepts from the NCERT Class 1 Joyful Mathematics textbook (ncert.nic.in).
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