Sizing UP Measurement: Activities For GRADES 6-8 Classrooms

Description: Understanding measurement helps students make sense of their current lives and prepares them for an increasingly sophisticated and complex world. In the Sizing Up Measurement series, expert teachers share their classroom-tested lessons that focus on essential measurement concepts in a problem-solving context. Students come away from these lessons with a deeper understanding of why and how to measure length, area, volume, and more, and they develop the confidence required to make sense of any situation and the measurement tools involved.The book provides a wealth of practical yet rich investigations that help students:● develop an understanding of what it means to measure, using standard and nonstandard units;● select a system of measure to be used-customary or metric;● understand now to use a variety of measurement tools; and● make connections to other strands of the math curriculum as well as across the curriculum to literature social studies, and scienceThe lessons in Sizing Up Measurement: Activities for Grades 6-8 Classrooms focus on concepts important to the middle school math curriculum, including length, area, volume, ratios and rates, similarity, and angles, and often make connections among various measurement topics. Each lesson is organized in an accessible, easy-to-use format that includes an overview, a list of materials, a vocabulary list, and step-by- step teaching directions.Magic marker used to cover name, no other markings in book

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Location: Lake Orion, Michigan

End Time: 2025-01-26T21:52:54.000Z

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