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Article #1319Re: Metric unit examples
From: Namkcihp
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 1994 19:19
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 1994 19:19
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Patty! I think that it is a great idea to try to find examples of really large and small metric units. My students have a very hard time dealing with numbers that are very large or very small. See if they can deal with the numbers first. Can they give real world examples of a sitiation where there is 10 of something(easy), 100(senior class), 1000 (entire school) 10,000 (people at game) 100,000 (people at a concert) You can see if they can go the other way too. I find that it is hard for them to even imagine 10 to the 11th stars in a galaxy. Let me know what you think. Paul
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