Measurement data - New learning
This page provides a list of the skills and knowledge developed by using measured data.
About this resource
ALiM teachers sometimes focus exclusively on number skills and strategies, believing that until their students have mastered these, there is little point in introducing them to other areas of mathematics. However, helping students to make connections between mathematical ideas (and between strands) helps them to construct a broader, more robust understanding of mathematics.
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Measurement data - New learning
While measured data functions in exactly the same ways as non-measurement number data, it nevertheless requires students to develop new skills and knowledge. These include:
- using different measuring devices
- reading scales of all kinds
- using units of all kinds
- using the metric system
- estimation as a safeguard against error
- fit-for-purpose rounding.
Each of the above is important and useful in its own right.
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