Elementary Education Models
Inventing Measurement Unit: Goals
- Students will discover that the units of measurement are arbitrary.
- Students will discover the need for a standard unit in order to communicate lenght measuremnt to others.
- Students will use a real problem context with a need to invent units of lenght.
- Students will work cooperatively in small groups of 4 or 5 students. (Instructors must take the following into consideration when developing groups- high/low students; students that work well together; and students who tend to 'take charge' in group.)
For particular standards from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics relevant to this lesson, click here.
For particular objectives from the Alabama Course of Study relevant to this lesson, click here.