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Moser, Doris B. – Learning Resources, 1975
Article focuses on activities designed to make students "think metric." (HB)
Descriptors: Laboratory Techniques, Learning Activities, Metric System, Teaching Methods
Robbins, Patricia – Journal of Business Education, 1978
Techniques for incorporating metrics into existing business courses and suggestions for classroom activities are presented. (MF)
Descriptors: Business Education, Class Activities, Metric System, Teaching Methods
Fox, Charlyn – Journal of Business Education, 1976
Suggestions are made for teaching units of length, area, volume, capacity, and mass along with rules for correct punctuation and spelling. A number of learning devices adapted from normal business practices are listed. (TA)
Descriptors: Business Education, Learning Activities, Measurement, Metric System
Rusnock, Micahael A. – Teacher, 1975
Author developed a metric olympics in order to provide students with exercise, fun and practice with metric measurement. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Diagrams, Learning Activities, Metric System
Schultz, Bob – Teacher, 1979
Before introducing the metric system, the author spends a week having his class use arbitrary and exotic measuring methods, so that they learn to appreciate the need for metrics as a common standard of measurement. (SJL)
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Measurement
Peer reviewedKundel, Susan E. – Lifelong Learning: The Adult Years, 1979
Describes the adult metric education workshops, instructional materials, and teaching approaches for adults developed by the American College Testing Program in Project Metric to provide the adult consumer with metric skills. Includes an example of objectives from the adult metric kit. (MF)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Consumer Education, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedThiessen, Diane – Arithmetic Teacher, 1979
Two metric measurement activities that also develop other mathematical skills are given. (MK)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Learning Activities, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewedMathematics Teacher, 1980
Presented are suggestions for teaching metric conversion and the properties of quadrilaterals. (MK)
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Geometry, Mathematics Instruction, Measurement
Bright, George W. – American Metric Journal, 1977
This is the first part of an article discussing methods for teaching the metric system. Measurement as a function, estimation, and textbook activities are covered. (DT)
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary Secondary Education, Instruction, Learning Activities
Johnson, Pat – Industrial Education, 1976
The younger the children, the easier it is for them to learn from these metric experiences. The author gives detailed suggestions for beginning of metric experiences that have been successfully used with students as young as five years of age. The activities are representative of each of the four common metric areas (length, weight, temperature,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Learning Activities, Measurement, Metric System
Kiner, Carol Ann – Illinois Teacher of Home Economics, 1977
Describes the inexpensive techniques utilized by a high school home economics teacher to teach the metric system to students in her sewing, child care, and foreign cooking classes. (EM)
Descriptors: Child Care, Class Activities, Cooking Instruction, Home Economics
Peer reviewedHovey, Larry; Hovey, Kathi – School Science and Mathematics, 1983
Sections look at: (1) Historical Perspective; (2) Naming the New System; (3) The Metric Units; (4) Measuring Larger and Smaller Amounts; (5) Advantage of Using the Metric System; (6) Metric Symbols; (7) Conversion from Metric to Customary System; (8) General Hints for Helping Children Understand; and (9) Current Status of Metric Conversion. (MP)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Instruction, Mathematical Applications, Mathematics Education
Peer reviewedSherman, Helene J. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1981
Presented is a useful metric game suitable for players above age eight. It provides practice in estimating lengths as well as in actual linear measurement. (MP)
Descriptors: Educational Games, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedTabler, M. Bernadine; Jacobson, Marilyn Hall – Arithmetic Teacher, 1981
Several activities designed to aid students in understanding and using the metric system in measuring weight and volume are presented with worksheets. (MP)
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedOlson, Judith; Olson, Melfried – School Science and Mathematics, 1982
A series of situations is suggested incorporating hands-on activities involving concrete experiences with measurement. It is felt that the activities used to teach mathematics and science at the Middle School level need to be specifically suited for the young adolescent. Extensions are possible for in-depth investigations for more advanced…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instruction, Learning Activities, Mathematical Applications
