Measurement homework in a math textbook… horribly out of scale.

  • charokol@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    Maybe this assignment was meant to be done with those same cubes. Like physically placing them in the boxes.

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      1 day ago

      Nope. The work assignment is the transition counting a tangible 3D item to counting a 2D picture. The next step is to go from the 2D picture to using just the numbers. And all the while they are learning to use counting and basic addition and subtraction. We are teaching from real world items to more and more abstract ideas.

      Remember: The numbers are real, the exact units don’t matter.

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      2 days ago

      What makes me homicidal is that the companies that make those cubes don’t make them a centimeter cubed. I want the kids to fucking measure them with rulers and be able to make that connection!