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Peer reviewedScience and Children, 1978
Two elementary school metric measurement units are reviewed. (BB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Education, Metric System
Peer reviewedThompson, Thomas E. – Science and Children, 1977
Lists and answers the ten questions most frequently asked by teachers in inservice programs on metric system education. Questions include ones about reasons for converting to metrics and successful methods, activities, and materials for teaching metrics. (CS)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Materials, Mathematics Education
Peer reviewedMarcuccio, Phyllis – Science and Children, 1977
Presents a position paper by the NSTA on status of metric education at the elementary school level. Recommendations are made for national consistency in metric education. Eleven general trends for teaching metrics successfully are listed. (SLH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Science, Instruction
Peer reviewedTodd, Robert M.; And Others – Science and Children, 1976
Presented is a study done with six children who received remediation in mathematics with emphasis on metric measurement. All had serious problems in arithmetic. Results proved encouraging. Two of the six children proceeded in the regular mathematics classroom. (EB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Exceptional Child Education, Handicapped Students
Peer reviewedBellipanni, L. J.; Flowers, John M. – Science and Children, 1974
Suggests the use of road maps as a means of teaching children the metric system, and outlines a step-by-step procedure for transforming the scale on an ordinary road map into a metric scale. (JR)
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Instruction, Map Skills, Maps
Peer reviewedBernoff, Joshua D.; Rowe, Mary Budd – Science and Children, 1978
Reported is a study designed to determine the effectiveness of two methods of teaching the metric system using only metric measurements and teaching students conversion procedures. (MR)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Grade 6
Peer reviewedStuart, Kristine – Science and Children, 1977
Describes several class activities to introduce the metric system to seventh graders. Also presents three groups of activities that are used to individualize instruction. Students choose activities within each group, completing as many as contracted in the areas of (1) making something, (2) gathering experimental data, and (3) completing…
Descriptors: Individual Activities, Individualized Instruction, Instructional Materials, Mathematics Education
Peer reviewedDowling, Kenneth W. – Science and Children, 1977
Describes the "Measure Metric" series of twelve fifteen-minute programs and related classroom materials for grades 5 and 6 for teaching the metric system and the International System of Units (SI). (SL)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedBishop, Jeanne E. – Science and Children, 1978
The right and left brain hemispheres have been found to be responsible for different processes. Educators are searching for methods of learning which utilize the right as well as the left brain. The activities in this article attempt to develop right-brain functions in Middle School students through metric measurement. (Author/MA)
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials, Interdisciplinary Approach
