Suggests activities and materials to use in introducing the metric system to elementary school children. (JMB)

Describes a 45-minute module to instruct elementary school teachers in teaching the metric system. (CS)

This student activity manual for elementary students is designed to teach several metric units. Included are activities related to length (meter), volume (liter), mass (grams), and temperature (celsius). Activities include a variety of drill sheets interspersed with other activities. Cartoons are used extensively to appeal to student interests.…

This student activity manual for elementary students is designed to teach several metric units. Included are activities related to temperature, length, volume, and mass. In this manual, reading, adding, and subtracting decimals is stressed. Activities include a variety of drill sheets. Cartoons are used extensively to appeal to student interests.…

This student activity manual for elementary students is designed to teach several concepts related to the metric system and measurement. Included are activities related to length, area, volume, conversion of metric units, and computation skills with decimals (addition, subtraction, and division). Cartoons are used extensively to appeal to student…

This student activity manual for elementary students is designed to teach several metric units. Included are activities related to length, area, volume, mass, and temperature. This manual emphasizes units, measuring, and computation skills. Computation skills stressed include addition, subtraction, and multiplication. Problems include whole…

This student activity manual for primary students is designed to teach several concepts related to measurement. Included are activities related to length, volume, and mass. The manual emphasizes comparisons between objects - big, small, long, short, heavy, light, most, and least. Cartoons are used extensively to appeal to student interests. (RH)

This is one of several teacher's guides for the 4M Company, a set of materials for teaching metric concepts and computation. This level of the program deals with premeasurement concepts and vocabulary and introduces the basic metric units. Students compare properties of common objects directly. Students are introduced to four metric units: meter,…

This student activity manual for primary students is designed to teach several metric units. Included are activities related to length, volume, mass, and temperature. This manual emphasizes making comparisons between objects - big, small, long, short, heavy, light, most, least, hotter and colder. Measuring skills are also stressed. Cartoons are…

This is one of several teacher's guides for the 4M Company, a set of materials for teaching metric concepts and computation. This level of the program extends comparisons from two objects to comparisons involving three or more objects. Vocabulary includes superlatives (longest) as well as comparatives (longer). Students are introduced to six…

This student activity manual for primary students is designed to teach several metric units. Included are activities related to length, volume, mass, and temperature. This manual emphasizes learning to measure, reading instruments, spelling terms, and making comparisons. Activities include a variety of drill sheets interspersed with other…

This is one of several teacher's guides for the 4M Company, a set of materials for teaching metric concepts and computation skills to elementary school students. Included in this guide are sections on needed materials, length (comparison, arbitrary units, meter, decimeter, centimeter, addition, subtraction), capacity (comparison, arbitrary units,…

This is one of several teacher's guides for the 4M Company, a set of materials for teaching metric concepts and computation skills to elementary school students. Included in this guide are sections on needed materials, length (ancient Hawaiian units, meter decimeter, centimeter, addition, subtraction), decimals related to meters (measurement,…

This is one of several teacher's guides for the 4M Company, a set of materials for teaching metric concepts and computation skills to elementary school students. Included in this guide are sections on needed materials, temperature, length, metric prefixes, decimals, mass, area, perimeter, and a minicourse on metrics. Answers to the activities in…

This is one of several teacher's guides for the 4M Company, a set of materials for teaching metric concepts and computation skills to elementary school students. Included in this guide are sections on needed materials, metric prefixes and symbols, length, decimals, perimeter, area, volume, mass, temperature, and a minicourse on metrics. Answers to…