Navigating through Measurement in Grades 6-8

Real world investigations can move students in the middle grades from their earlier, informal understanding of measurement to the abstract, sophisticated understanding that they will need in high school. This book provides hands-on activities that build important strategies and concepts. Students learn about accuracy and estimation, and they develop formulas for the perimeter, area, and volume of two- and three-dimensional shapes. In exploring proportionality, scaling, and similarity, they build a scale model of a room and make a "pi ruler" to help gauge the age of a tree. As they progress from fundamental measures to derived measures, they investigate such rates as speed and density.Bright, George W. is the author of 'Navigating through Measurement in Grades 6-8', published 2005 under ISBN 9780873535458 and ISBN 0873535456.