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- Title: Learning to Measure Length in the First Three Years of School (Essay)
- Author : Australasian Journal of Early Childhood
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 215 KB
Description
Learning length in school Perhaps the first time students realise that the mathematical ideas they meet in school are different from those in their lives is when their teachers start to teach measurement In their homes, children may have heard someone say 'that bag is heavy', 'we have to wait a long time', 'this is a big bottle', 'it is a long way', 'you are growing tall', 'this room is big', 'that shoe is too small', and so on. Of course, they may also have heard 'one litre of milk', 'we have to wait one hour', and even 'the speed limit is 60 kilometres per hour'. As necessitated by the school curriculum, teachers seek to build on and give structure to those informal experiences. Unfortunately, in school the curriculum and teachers tend to isolate particular measurement domains, and formalise the aspects of measuring within each individual domain. Often teachers focus first on the domain of length measurement, and this emphasis is evident in the published curriculum and reports of research with young children, including this report.