Learning and teaching measurement
By: Douglas H. Clements, 2003 yearbook editor ; George Bright, general yearbook editor.
Contributors: Clements, Douglas H.; Bright, George W.
Series: Yearbook ;; 2003; Yearbook (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) ;; 2003.
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Reston, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Mensuration -- Study and teaching; Area measurement -- Study and teaching (Elementary); Area measurement -- Study and teaching (Secondary); Surfaces -- Areas and volumes -- Study and teaching (Elementary); Surfaces -- Areas and volumes -- Study and teaching (Secondary); Length measurement -- Study and teaching (Elementary); Length measurement -- Study and teaching (Secondary); Time measurements -- Study and teaching (Elementary); Time measurements -- Study and teaching (Secondary); Measurement
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Linear, area, and time measurement in prekindergarten to grade 2 -- Michelle Stephan, Douglas H. Clements; title: Understanding children's developing strategies and concepts for length -- Jeffrey E. Barrett, Graham Jones, Carol Thornton, Sandra Dickson; title: Making connections with powerful ideas in the measurement of length -- Nicola Yelland; title: Developing the building blocks of measurement with young children -- Theresa J. Grant, Kate Kline; title: Benchmarks as tools for developing measurement sense -- Elana Joram; title: Assessing and developing measurement with young children -- Doug Clarke, Jill Cheeseman, Andrea McDonough, Barbara Clark; title: Count me into measurement: a program for the early elementary school -- Lynne Outhred, Michael Mitchelmore, Diane McPhail, Peter Gould; title: Developing an understanding of measurement in the elementary grades -- Richard Lehrer, Linda Jaslow, Carmen L. Curtis; title: Understanding students' thinking about area and volume measurement -- Michael T. Battista; title: Structuring a rectangle: teachers write to learn about their students' thinking -- Deborah Schifter, Janice Szymaszek; title: About students' understanding and learning the concept of surface area -- Cinzia Bonotto -- The; title: measurement of time: transitivity, unit iteration, and conservation of speed -- Constance K. Kamii, Kathy Long; title: Bridging Yup'ik ways of measuring to Western mathematics -- Jerry Lipka, Tod Shockey, Barbara Adams; title: What students know about measurement: perspectives from the NAEP -- Marilyn E. Strutchens, W. Gary Martin, Patricia Ann Kenney; title: Providing opportunities for students and teachers to 'measure up' -- Melissa Boston, Margaret Smith; title: Measuring Montana: an episode in estimation -- Ted Hodgson, Linda Simonsen, Jennifer Lubek, Lyle Anderson; title: Estimation at work -- Thomasenia Lott Adams, Gregory Harrell; title: Exploring measurement concepts through literature: natural links across disciplines -- Richard Austin, Denisse Thompson, Charlene Beckmann; title: Using the Geoboard to enhance measurement instruction in the secondary school mathematics classroom -- Barbara A. Burns, Gail A. Brade; title: Using measurement to develop mathematical reasoning at the middle and high school levels -- Mary C. Enderson; title: Is our teaching measuring up? Race-, SES-, and gender-related gaps in measurement achievement -- Sarah T. Lubienski; title: Measurement, representation, and computer models of motion -- Christopher Hartmann, Jeffrey Choppin; title: Measuring the unmeasurable: using technology to study the irrational -- Maurice Burke; title: Measurement in adult eduation: starting with students' understandings -- Myriam Steinback, Mary Jane Schmitt, Martha Merson, Esther Leonelli.