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This hilarious video is the perfect demonstration of the complexity of English units of measurement

This site is an introduction to measurement for upper elementary students. Come learn about length, mass, temperature, time, and volume. First travel to each topic link, and then test yourself with the fun exercises that follow. When you master these, and are ready for another challenge, try out some of the additional activities and journey to more exciting measurement links.

The measurement mishap that is the topic of this report is a nice opener for a lesson on measurement

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Though any given book could likely be used in multiple ways, the common element in these various approaches is the intent to use literature to provide vicarious mathematical experiences based on real problems or situations of interest to teachers and students.

Recent trends in education have focused on an integrated curriculum. Children learn best when subject matter is meaningful and useful, and literature brings meaning to math. David Whitin says, "Using math related children's literature can help children realize the variety of situations in which people use mathematics for real purposes" (1994). Thus, children can recognize how math will be helpful to them in the "real world."

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You are not alone if the idea of teaching measurement makes you uncomfortable; after all, doesn't everyone know how to measure? We selected these resources to help you refresh your approach to teaching measurement.

The lessons and materials available here come from a variety of sites and organizations. Some include offers for video or software, and some are lesson plans. Where the originals are Claris or Acrobat (PDF) documents, we have for the most part converted them to HTML, leaving a link back to the parent page from which you can download the formatted version.

In order to help you learn the metric system, we have designed some things I hope you will find usefull. The are geared for all ages, and can be used in a classroom or home. Please contact us with feedback and ideas that you may have to useful metric aids. Since I am a middle school teacher, I do this in my "spare" time so prduction of new products can be slow. If you are well versed in computer graphics programs and would like to help, let us know. We are always looking for people to share t

View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.

This website presents the universe in powers of 10. From the smallest particles within the nucleus of an atom to the expanse of the visible universe and beyond, a unique sequence of images displays the relative sizes of objects in our universe.