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‘What a super book! It is absolutely packed with practical ideas and activities to help you love maths, and love teaching and/or learning it. It certainly helps to develop an enthusiasm for a subject most adults tend to say “I'm no good at…”’
Measures
Measures
Measures
Chapter Overview
In this chapter you can read about:
- Progression in learning in measures including length, mass and capacity
- Common misconceptions and areas of difficulty
- Key concepts of conservation and transitivity
- Difficulties children encounter when learning to tell the time
- Recommendations for effective, interesting and engaging activities.
Key Ideas about Measures and Measurement
Measurement is a means of quantifying the relative amount of a given feature (for example, mass, length) of an object (Barmby et al., 2009). It also serves as a way of comparing such quantifications for different objects. Measures are, by definition, exact. For example, every object has a precise length, mass and volume and, at any moment in time, a person will have lived for a precise length of time.
However, the act of measurement is imprecise. Whatever ...
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