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A Comparison of Instructional Approaches to Teaching the International System of Weights and Measures to Elementary School Children with Varying Mental Ability. Final Report.
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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