What is the Measure App?

As the name might suggest ‘Measure’ is an iOS app used for well, measuring, in a fun and simple way.

Using your camera you can select objects to measure by length, width and height. Additionally, it has a level function to enable you to check if something is straight. (Plus, it’s free so that’s a win 😉).

How does it work?

Simply aim your device at the starting point you want to measure from and tap on your screen on that point to start the measurement, and then move your device along to the desired endpoint and tap again to get the length, width or height. In some cases, you will find the app automatically measures an area of an object for you too!

You can also connect measurements together by selecting the endpoint of a measurement as the start of the following measurement.

This was interesting for comparing measurements and for breaking up objects into smaller points for measurements. For example, take my festive doorstop here. I checked its overall height as well as the width of its hat etc.

How could you use it in a lesson?

Pupils could be tasked to estimate the length/width/height of an object. They could make their estimate and then use the Measure app to see how close their estimate was. You could even ask them to calculate the difference between the predicted and actual measurements.

You could then ask pupils to estimate the length/width/height of a particular part of an object which they could again measure and compare to their estimate.

Pupils can snap a screenshot of their work which can then be uploaded as evidence of their learning to an app such as ReallySchool. You could also get pupils to annotate their screenshots or record an audio clip explaining what they noticed.