Stage: 1 Challenge Level: 
Perhaps it would help to find a mug that you can look at.
Can you think of anything you have which might be about the same size as the Man's mug? Can you estimate how much tea that might hold?
Learning through exploration. Compound transformations. Ratio. Tangram. Interactivities. Practical Activity. Estimating and approximating. Multiplication & division. Visualising. Addition & subtraction.
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