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Download full textGoldbecker, Sheralyn S. – 1976
How measurement systems developed is briefly reviewed, followed by comments on the international conversion to the metric system and a lengthier discussion of the history of the metric controversy in the U.S. Statements made by supporters of the customary and metric systems are listed. The role of education is detailed in terms of teacher…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education, History
Pigford, Valma Darleen – 1974
Two methods of instructing preservice elementary teachers in the metric system are compared in this study. In the laboratory method 28 subjects handled equipment and participated in measurement and estimation activities. The 29 subjects in the lecture demonstration group met as a class and individually recorded results of the same activities…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary School Mathematics, Higher Education, Instruction
Chalupsky, Albert B.; And Others – 1974
This study was undertaken in order to gather information concerning conversion to the metric system by other countries which might be useful in planning for conversion by the United States. Representatives of organizations in five countries (United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and Canada) which had recently converted to the…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Educational Experience, Educational Planning, Instruction
Bargmann, Theodore John – 1973
This study was concerned with identification of elementary school grade levels appropriate for teaching various phases of the metric system. The same unit was taught to 201 elementary school children in grades three through six. Pretests and posttests were used to assess progress made by students in developing skills and understandings related to…
Descriptors: Achievement, Curriculum, Decimal Fractions, Doctoral Dissertations
Downs, W. A. – 1976
The purpose of this study was to determine the relative effectiveness of two instructional approaches upon the attitude, achievement, and retention of fourth, fifth, and sixth graders studying a 3-week unit on the metric system. A laboratory approach, in which students measured three-dimensional objects with tools scaled in metric units, was…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary Secondary Education, Instruction, Instructional Materials
Adams, Constance Coburn – 1975
The purpose of this study was the identification of effective means of educating the general public to think in terms of the metric system. Toward this end, extension home eoncomists in New York State were surveyed concerning their plans to implement teaching of the metric system. A literature review was conducted over four basic topics: (1)…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Consumer Education, Educational Planning, Home Economics Education
