Volume 1, Issue 16 – Measurement in Context

Welcome to this week’s edition of Best Practices Weekly.  Today we’ll be discussing the concept of Measurement in Context.

Young students often struggle with conceptual understanding of measurement, even something relatively straightforward like length. In an article for the Mathematics Education Research Journal , two Australian professors write about the importance of tying together measurement and students’ personal experiences in order to build conceptual comprehension.

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