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Learning and teaching measurement : 2003 yearbook / editor, Douglas H. Clements ; general yearbook editor, George Bright.

Contributor(s): Series: Yearbook (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) ; 2003Publication details: Reston, Va. : National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, c2003.Description: xiii, 331 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0873535391
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QA1 .N3 2003
Contents:
Preface / Douglas H. Clements -- PART 1: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL -- Introduction / Michelle Stephan, Joanne Mendiola -- Linear, area, and time measurement in prekindergarten to grade 2 / Michelle Stephan, Douglas H. Clements -- Understanding children's developing strategies and concepts for length / Jeffrey E. Barrett, Graham Jones, Carol Thornton, Sandra Dickson -- Making connections with powerful ideas in the measurement of length / Nicola Yelland -- Developing the building blocks of measurement with young children / Theresa J. Grant, Kate Kline -- Benchmarks as tools for developing measurement sense / Elana Joram -- Assessing and developing measurement with young children / Doug Clarke, Jill Cheeseman, Andrea McDonough, Barbara Clark -- Count me into measurement: a program for the early elementary school / Lynne Outhred, Michael Mitchelmore, Diane McPhail, Peter Gould -- Developing an understanding of measurement in the elementary grades / Richard Lehrer, Linda Jaslow, Carmen L. Curtis -- Understanding students' thinking about area and volume measurement / Michael T. Battista -- Structuring a rectangle: teachers write to learn about their students' thinking / Deborah Schifter, Janice Szymaszek -- About students' understanding and learning the concept of surface area / Cinzia Bonotto -- The measurement of time: transitivity, unit iteration, and conservation of speed / Constance K. Kamii, Kathy Long -- Bridging Yup'ik ways of measuring to Western mathematics / Jerry Lipka, Tod Shockey, Barbara Adams.
PART 2: SECONDARY SCHOOL -- Introduction / Veronica Meeks, Robert F. Wheeler -- What students know about measurement: perspectives from the NAEP / Marilyn E. Strutchens, W. Gary Martin, Patricia Ann Kenney -- Providing opportunities for students and teachers to 'measure up' / Melissa Boston, Margaret Smith -- Measuring Montana: an episode in estimation / Ted Hodgson, Linda Simonsen, Jennifer Lubek, Lyle Anderson -- Estimation at work / Thomasenia Lott Adams, Gregory Harrell -- Exploring measurement concepts through literature: natural links across disciplines / Richard Austin, Denisse Thompson, Charlene Beckmann -- Using the Geoboard to enhance measurement instruction in the secondary school mathematics classroom / Barbara A. Burns, Gail A. Brade -- Using measurement to develop mathematical reasoning at the middle and high school levels / Mary C. Enderson -- Is our teaching measuring up? Race-, SES-, and gender-related gaps in measurement achievement / Sarah T. Lubienski -- Measurement, representation, and computer models of motion / Christopher Hartmann, Jeffrey Choppin -- Measuring the unmeasurable: using technology to study the irrational / Maurice Burke -- Measurement in adult education: starting with students' understandings / Myriam Steinback, Mary Jane Schmitt, Martha Merson, Esther Leonelli.

Includes supplement: Classroom activities for Learning and teaching measurement. Cataloged as volume 2.

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface / Douglas H. Clements -- PART 1: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL -- Introduction / Michelle Stephan, Joanne Mendiola -- Linear, area, and time measurement in prekindergarten to grade 2 / Michelle Stephan, Douglas H. Clements -- Understanding children's developing strategies and concepts for length / Jeffrey E. Barrett, Graham Jones, Carol Thornton, Sandra Dickson -- Making connections with powerful ideas in the measurement of length / Nicola Yelland -- Developing the building blocks of measurement with young children / Theresa J. Grant, Kate Kline -- Benchmarks as tools for developing measurement sense / Elana Joram -- Assessing and developing measurement with young children / Doug Clarke, Jill Cheeseman, Andrea McDonough, Barbara Clark -- Count me into measurement: a program for the early elementary school / Lynne Outhred, Michael Mitchelmore, Diane McPhail, Peter Gould -- Developing an understanding of measurement in the elementary grades / Richard Lehrer, Linda Jaslow, Carmen L. Curtis -- Understanding students' thinking about area and volume measurement / Michael T. Battista -- Structuring a rectangle: teachers write to learn about their students' thinking / Deborah Schifter, Janice Szymaszek -- About students' understanding and learning the concept of surface area / Cinzia Bonotto -- The measurement of time: transitivity, unit iteration, and conservation of speed / Constance K. Kamii, Kathy Long -- Bridging Yup'ik ways of measuring to Western mathematics / Jerry Lipka, Tod Shockey, Barbara Adams.

PART 2: SECONDARY SCHOOL -- Introduction / Veronica Meeks, Robert F. Wheeler -- What students know about measurement: perspectives from the NAEP / Marilyn E. Strutchens, W. Gary Martin, Patricia Ann Kenney -- Providing opportunities for students and teachers to 'measure up' / Melissa Boston, Margaret Smith -- Measuring Montana: an episode in estimation / Ted Hodgson, Linda Simonsen, Jennifer Lubek, Lyle Anderson -- Estimation at work / Thomasenia Lott Adams, Gregory Harrell -- Exploring measurement concepts through literature: natural links across disciplines / Richard Austin, Denisse Thompson, Charlene Beckmann -- Using the Geoboard to enhance measurement instruction in the secondary school mathematics classroom / Barbara A. Burns, Gail A. Brade -- Using measurement to develop mathematical reasoning at the middle and high school levels / Mary C. Enderson -- Is our teaching measuring up? Race-, SES-, and gender-related gaps in measurement achievement / Sarah T. Lubienski -- Measurement, representation, and computer models of motion / Christopher Hartmann, Jeffrey Choppin -- Measuring the unmeasurable: using technology to study the irrational / Maurice Burke -- Measurement in adult education: starting with students' understandings / Myriam Steinback, Mary Jane Schmitt, Martha Merson, Esther Leonelli.

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