Michael
Are you children able to answer the following question:
Jack is 5 ft 2 in tall
Mary is 4 ft 8 in tall
Fred is 4 ft 11 n tall
Ann is 5ft 0 in tall
Mike is 4 ft 8 in tall
What is their average height (Calculators may be used)?
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From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [ma
What I found quite disconcerting is that the questions seemed to be very
imprecise in relation to the pictures. For example, the picture of the
pop/water bottle, and asking whether it was bigger/same as/smaller than a
liter. That bottle in the picture could have been all 3! I am not sure what
Until I was able to remove all rulers with any inch markings on them, we
had a problem like this in our Introductory Physics (PHYS 101) labs at
the College of Charleston (SC); never mind confusion at the third grade
level!
Here's a story that exemplifies that and that shows my motivation for
Dear Jim and All,
You, and many teachers, might find this page useful:
http://www.vendian.org/mncharity/dir3/paper_rulers/UnstableURL/rules_mm.pdf
I found this through the http://www.vendian.org/mncharity/ web page
where there are many other useful metric resources.
As usual, I do not recom
