Measuring Length and Height Maths Worksheets

How can I use these fantastic length worksheets?

Use these measuring length worksheets as a PDF resource to teach children about the importance of knowing how to confidently measure objects by their length and height. These fantastic length worksheets will provide you with loads of opportunities to teach children about measuring things in centimetres, and children will be able to use the ruler provided in the pack to do so once you have printed it out! 

You can use these fantastic measuring length worksheets as a PDF resource to help children to use the physical objects around them to work out what the longest and shortest objects are, and how to work this out. 

Here’s a quick list of some of the classroom items that children can measure on the length worksheets:

• Pencils 
• Paintbrushes
• Sharpeners
• Crayons
• Gluesticks 
• Pens
• Rubbers
• Glue spreaders

Using such familiar objects will encourage children to feel confident with their measuring choices, and there are also handy prompts such as “The longest line is….” and “The shortest line is….” to help them differentiate between the measurements. Perfect for helping children to organise their thoughts and consider the range of measurements that they will have taken.

Are there any other resources like this?

There sure are! We have loads of fantastic resources just like the length worksheets, which you can use to improve your students' knowledge even more!

Check out these Shorter or Taller Worksheets, which will help children to contextualise and compare the heights of objects such as houses, chairs, and even welly boots! This resource is differentiated, which means that you can pick the worksheets based on a child’s ability, and not have to worry about finding loads of different resources. 

These Length Comparisons Maths Activity Sheets are also great for helping children to understand how objects are shorter and longer, depending on their size!

Another handy units of measurement exercise is these Measuring Length Worksheets, which offer a practical introduction to measuring objects.

You can find a teacher-planned lesson pack to introduce this aim in Twinkl PlanIt. 

How do I measure length and height?

If you’d like to explain how to measure length and height before using the measuring length worksheets as a PDF resource for your class, we have some simple starter sentences here that will make measuring length and height easy to digest for students. 

Measurement is a way to figure out the size of something, how much it weighs, how hot something may be, or how fast it’s moving! We can also measure things like height, time, depth, how far away something is, or how close something is. 

You can measure length and height using any standard or non-standard unit of measure. It is best to measure using standard units of measure (such as using a ruler with centimetres on it) as this is standardised and more widely used.