Elementary Education Models

Inventing Measurement Unit: Additional Curricular Goals
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  • Students will gain self-confidence from creating and inventing a way to solve the perimeter-desk problem.
  • Students will improve their social skills by working together and making decisions of a group.
  • Students will relate problem solving in mathematics to everyday problems of estimating and measuring.
  • Students will devise their own units for measuring perimeter, then discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using arbitary units.
  • Students will understand the concept of perimeter.
  • Students will understand the relationship of estimates to measurement.