This module was prepared to "metricate" approximately 3800 teachers in Western Kentucky. A brief history of measurement systems is followed by sections concerning length, mass (weight), temperature, and area and volume measurement. Each section contains a list of the common metric units used and their relationship as well as activities…

Suggestions for familiarizing elementary teachers with the use of the metric system are given. These include a "stair-steps" method of converting units within the metric system and estimation and measurement activities using familiar everyday objects. (MN)

Recommendations made by the National Education Association to the United States Senate Committee on Commerce on the teaching of the metric system are summarized. (SD)

Various aspects of metric education are discussed, such as industrial training, teacher education, thinking metric, workshop approach, the lack of metric training aids, and correct symbol usage. (MP)

Presents activities designed to help the language teacher, teacher candidate, and language student learn to use metric measurement. A pretest/post-test is provided in English. Metric vocabulary is given in French, Spanish, and German. A list of sources of metric information and teaching aids is appended. (Author/AM)

This handbook, prepared in field-test version, is intended to provide in-service teachers with "guidance in the development of the basic concepts of measurement." The basic assumption on which this guidance is based is that "hands-on" experience is the most appropriate method of teaching metric measurement. An additional premise is that students…

This practicum was designed and implemented to instruct the staff of two elementary schools in the basic content of the metric system and to demonstrate some teaching strategies for instructing elementary students in metrics. A series of twenty after-school workshops was run on a weekly basis. A model was developed to aid other elementary schools…

This manual contains nine modules on the metric system: background and overview, length and basic prefixes, volume, mass, temperature, relationships within metric system, everyday applications, relationships between metric and English, and developing a teaching plan. Each module states objectives, suggested activities, and illustration of mastery.…

The "Arithmetic Teacher" was founded in 1954 by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics to serve the interests and needs of all who are concerned with elementary school mathematics. There were four issues of the journal in 1954, five in 1955 and 1956, six in 1957, 1958 and 1959, and eight in 1960 through April 1979. Since September 1979…

This Teacher Education and Mathematics (TEAM) content module focuses on metric measurement. Topics addressed include decimal structure and prefixes, precision in measurement, reference measures, United States customary and metric systems, volume, area, and conversion. The module consists of: (1) an instructor's text; (2) an instructor's guide and…

Included in this document are the addresses and proceedings of the 40th National and 7th International Annual Conference of the American Industrial Arts Association. The proceedings are organized by the following subject groups: career education, curriculum, drafting, electricity/electronics, elementary school industrial arts, energy, evaluation,…

This book is a compilation of 145 conference papers and presentations on industrial arts education covering content in career education, classroom projects, construction, curriculum, elementary school industrial arts, energy, funding programs, graphic communications, interdisciplinary studies, international perspective, past-present-future,…