Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Journal/Book/Conference Title Title
Iowa Council of Teachers of Mathematics Journal,
Volume
33
First Page
47
Last Page
53
Abstract
Many students think of measurement as a set of procedures, for example, lining up a ruler with an object, and stating the number on the ruler that corresponds with one end of the object. This may be one reason that measurement is typically one of the weakest areas of mathematical achievement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (Struchens, Martin, & Kenney, 2003). To combat students’ weaknesses in measurement, we suggest that in the early grades they need to develop a feel for standard measurement units, such as inches and feet, and become familiar with real world referents that correspond to those units in magnitude (Joram, 2003; Joram, Gabriele, Gelman & Subrhamanyam, 2005). Hope (1989) notes that developing knowledge of a wide variety of everyday referents for measurements (e.g., doorways are about 2 meters in height) is foundational to number sense in the arena of measurement, or measurement sense.
Department
Department of Educational Psychology and Foundations
Original Publication Date
2006
Repository
UNI ScholarWorks, University of Northern Iowa, Rod Library
Copyright
© 2006 Iowa Council of Teachers of Mathematics. The copyright holder has granted permission for posting.
Date Digital
2006
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Joram, Elana and Garcia, Faith, "Taking a Closer Look at Measurement – Using Teacher Read Alouds of Nonfiction to Develop Students’ Measurement Sense" (2006). Faculty Publications. 3.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/epf_facpub/3
Comments
First published in Iowa Council of Teachers of Mathematics Journal, v. 33 (2006), pp. 47-53, published by Iowa Council of Teachers of Mathematics