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Ideas for a School System Introducing METRIC
Negus, LeRoy – American Metric Journal, 1976
Five sequential objectives of metric education are listed, and suggestions for teaching the metric system in the elementary school and in fifteen disciplinary areas in the secondary schools are offered. (SD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, Learning Activities
Let's Use the Metric System: A Supplement to Mathematics K-6.
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Negus, LeRoy – 1973
This bulletin provides elementary school teachers with some information about the metric system and some suggestions for teaching it. A history of the development of the system is given followed by a grade by grade guide to objectives and activities to be used with lessons on measurement with the metric system. The activities stress the decimal…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Elementary School Mathematics, Guides, Instruction