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Smalley, Elizabeth – Geography Teacher, 2010
How can teachers encourage their geography students to make sense of big numbers? The key math skills geography students need to apply are ones they learned long ago in fifth grade: estimation and place value. However, in order to recognize the size of a city, or strength of a country's per capita income, or value of a birth rate, they need…
Descriptors: Geography, Birth Rate, Number Concepts, Mathematics Skills