This handbook was prepared to aid teachers and teacher educators spread the messages "think metric" and "live metric." It includes a project description of a metric evaluation program and discussions of (1) an inservice training component; (2) a course outline for training programs; (3) the arguments for and against use of the metric system; (4)…

Although this pamphlet is intended as background material for teachers in English primary schools changing to the System International d'Unites (SI units), the form of the metric system being adopted by the United Kingdom, the educational implications of the change and the lists of apparatus suitable for use with children up to 14 years of age are…

Addressed to the agricultural education teacher, this guide is intended to provide appropriate information, viewpoints, and attitudes regarding the metric system and to make suggestions regarding presentation of the material in the classroom. An introductory section on teaching suggestions emphasizes the need for a "think metric" approach made up…

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 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 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…

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 the guide are sections on needed materials, metric symbols, length, perimeter, area, volume, capacity, mass (weight), decimals, conversion between metric units, temperature,…

The United States will convert to the metric system of measurement in the near future, and the distributive education programs in high school and at the adult level will have to train the needed personnel for business. The manual gives the basic conversion methods and instruction in teaching metrics. Metric programs conducted for business…

The manual provides industrial arts instructors with information necessary to introduce and teach the metric system to their students. The instructional unit is based on a project, the building of a model automobile racer propelled by a carbon dioxide cartridge. To add interest and enthusiasm, Statewide racing competition in which students may…

A diagnostic test of metric measurement skills was administered to 283 summer Vestibule Program students in 1978 at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Results of the testing showed that most of the deaf students lacked an understanding of the information needed for metric living. (Author)

The teaching guide for providing instruction in use of the metric system contains materials geared for the daily activities of the home. Contents of the guide are organized into four parts. Part 1 is a brief description of the history of the metric system and reasons for conversion in the United States. The major portion of the guide, part 2…

Presented are broad goals for a metric program in each of the grades K-6. Suggested activities and general guidelines for teaching are given. (MP)