By the age of five we should be able to delineate the difference between a tall or short person. These measures are very relative. I am six feet tall. Most people refer to me as a tall person. My college roommate is six and a half feet tall. By her standards, I am short. Yes, she plays basketball. Scientist estimate that eighty-percent of human height is due to genetics. There are studies looking at how the environment you grow up in can affect your adult height.
Just like one human is different from the other, every object has many characteristics. And just like humans are differentiated from one another, these characteristics differentiate one object from the other. while one object may be blue, the other might be pink. Some objects are short, while others are tall. Some objects are thick, while others might be thin. However, there is one characteristic that highly differentiates one object from the other, and that is the height of the objects. It might look like there is no possible way to understand whether the object we are looking at is tall or short, but that is just a myth. And you can easily make out whether the person is tall or short by just looking at it. For example, you are at a grocery store where you see two groups of apples. One group has more apples, with the shape of a pyramid while the other has a considerably less amount with the shape of a rectangle. The group that has more apples in a pyramid shape will be taller. So anything that is bigger, it will automatically become more tall. These worksheets explain how to compare the relative height of simple shapes. Students will identify taller and shorter shapes by circling them or coloring them in.