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Teaching Metric Measurement

Monograph No. 3: June 1975

METRIFICATION – ACTIVITIES, RELATIONSHIPS, and HUMOR

Publication of the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association

18 – 22

Teaching Metric Measurement

David F. Robitaille

Many teachers are apprehensive about teaching the metric system of measurement. Such worries are due, in large part, to two underlying causes: an unfamiliarity with the metric system, and a feeling that a whole new set of teaching techniques is required for teaching the metric system.