Measurements for Children

Hello everybody! I have found the combination of some topics, bringing it into the same substantiation. From this website, it can be developed lots of activities by a math teacher. This could also serve to clarify some unknown concepts, information and data to the students who are progressing regarding their apprenticeship in this area. This kind of activities can be adapted to any cycle according to Primary Education. Nevertheless, it is more tended to share with upper cycles, in order that they find any kind of difficulty with the vocabulary exposed. The units of measures are the standard ones and the whole webpage can serve as the main guide to centralise learners and resolve instantaneously common questions. This proposal can be considered as prestigious suggestions for teachers who are lack of new and original ideas. Perhaps, it could be a little confusing to learners who observe lots of numbers ones next to others. There could be added some clues for learners a constructive crit...

Hello viewers! Today, I want to share with you the content of a webpage in which appears some content which will be appropriate to use it in the first cycle of Primary Education, despite saying kindergarten in the title, due to the fact that its content could be very difficult to students who belong Childhood Education, and very basic for those students who are beginners in the second cycle of Primary Education even including such interesting outdoor experiments. In this post, it prevails the implementation of the subject concerning Natural Science introducing its kind of contextualizations and motivational aspects to engage learners while they are immersed in the process of developing this kind of tasks. In addition, it can give them useful recommendations in order to face up real situations or cases in their daily life that they are experimenting day by day. Mathematics and measurements are everywhere. I recognise that this webpage is shorter respect to others that I have previously...

Hi everyone again! I have found a webpage which covers a different topic, though will be very interesting for the children too. It treats information which is related to tips to take into account, in order to make the correct measurements for artworks and paintings, relating the transversal contents regarding the topic of visual arts. These paragraphs are very useful for parents, so as to astonish with different leisure activities, as same as teachers who have the possibility to innovate in the teaching programme, promoting new and playful activities. The imagination, creativity and originality can be found their space belong to drawings and paintings, focusing on the heights and different distances relating all the time with measurements elements, instruments and devices. Measurements need certainty and conviction instead of doubt and uncertainty. For that reason, learners can "play" with the abstract forms and unrecognisable elements of that drawings and paintings, keeping...

Hello everybody! I have found a webpage in which appears some questions in a quiz mode establishing a relationship between measurements and sports, where children need to think deeply first, what are the answers for the possibles statements; and if they do not know the answer, they can try it or search for it on internet. It is advisable that a family member or an adult can be with them in order that they will not watch the answers, so the apprenticeship is meaningful. This transversal topic of sports and Physical Education can engage girls and boys, because it does not only treat about different types of sports, but also can relate movements with mathematical activities and materialise associations between both affairs. This post seems to be more informal, however, the topics treated can be very diverse. The key procedure is to relate the examples and tasks to issues which can be oriented to health and how to make exercise in order to feel full of vitality and energy to face u whiche...

Good night everybody! I have found a really interesting webpage, in which appear immersed explanations about statistics for young learners, and its applications to daily life. It focuses on the main errors in the basis of the samples performed. The paragraphs of this document are highly recommended to employ with learners who belong to the third cycle (Fifth and Sixth Grade).  Maybe, it is true that it has not an entire relationship with measurement, but it is a section inside of the didactic of measurements if the activities are applied in this sense. When it appears human bodies and characters the learners can emphasize more with this kind of contextualization. These patterns can be spread and being joint to some historic and scientific researches. Perhaps, the motivational aspects are more difficult to find here, having the maths teachers the duty of dealing with them through unusual or less common questions and remaking some paragraphs of the information given, so as to be mor...

Hello again, there is even complete and utter confusion for teachers about the similarities and differences between geometry and measurement, you can imagine how it would be the situation for young learners. Here, I am going to let you the link of a webpage in which they explain very clearly each section which encloses first geometry and then measurement. It brings activities and resources suggested making the student's apprenticeship be more consistent and solid. In addition, there is further information available in which teachers could watch a deeper explanation in order to be able to answer to some children's questions which are interesting and require a formal and documented response. In spite of being more formal and categorised this type of distribution, the illustrations and stages exposed will motivate learners so as to continue researching for more mathematical information concerning this type of strategies to confront the concept of measurement. This webpage could c...

Many times, teachers have doubts when they have to set some points or to prepare a previous outline thinking the better way they are going to use in order to perform a session of their didactic unit, hence I am going to let here by the link of a PDF, some recommendations which will be very useful for students who belong the upper grades of the third cycle (Fifth and Sixth Grade). Moreover, it is essential to establish rows and steps to follows like parameters and procedures to take into account. Owing to the fact that is the last cycle of Primary Education, it is required the appearance of learning and teaching objectives in order to be more concrete. The visual area is an issue to be gained thanks to the interchanging of more flashy colours. Children love to try experiments and adventure games again and again non-stop. Hence, thanks to these concepts of frequency and real chances of obtaining something, will clarify them if they are in the good path or on the contrary if they should ...

Hello! I bring again an amazing visualization for children. On this occasion, it is about a video in which appear entertaining explanations about some theoretical concepts of measurements telling a range of examples, but transforming into practice, so as to keep students' attention at every moment. This kind of elements contributes to learners' mathematical knowledge. The explanations are clear, as well as are remarked some specific words in order to make learners assimilate better the logical knowledge inserting pedagogical and didactical connotations. I will orientate this video to learners who are in the lower grades, because their interest and enthusiasm are supposed to engage them more than if the case that they start to develop other hobbies inside their head which are most difficult to establish educative connections with mathematics matters by playing a video. I hope you enjoy watching it!

I have found some interactive games which would be very interesting for children and teenagers of all ages to play them, due to the fact that that there is a huge variety of topics inside the section of measurement, and it can work all the grades and cycles because there are games aimed to learners from three to fourteen years fold, enclosing all the entire Primary Education stage. The relationship between different symbols, objects and elements will engage even more the learners in order to fulfil each of this kind of activities. Despite being the learning games the most important part of this site, this webpage offers other educational posts, like for example: topmarks search, whiteboard resources, topmark apps and topmark blogs. All these ones are enclosing to an educational perspective regarding measurements, as well as being approximate to mathematics. The social and physic magnitudes can be deeply treated. In addition, parents have their space to catch some ideas which will be v...

Good morning, I have found a more formal and academic document in which appear what are the most recommendable procedures and processes to be carried out by teachers in order to know how to explain measurements concepts and themes towards young pupils. It is truth that this document is more aimed at beginner teachers in the world of education. For that, reason, this thoughtful analysis and reflection, a future teacher can acquire useful knowledge. Measurement is a difficult topic to be treated by teachers who had not prepared before this thematic of measurements. Furthermore, it is always recommendable to go deeply to more sophisticated learning through this kind of free webpages which help the students to assure the knowledge inside the subject of mathematics according to this topic of measurement. In spite of the length of the document (near from two hundred pages, the information is schematized and distributing the content by the utilization of arrows which will organise better...

Hello everybody, I am Federico, a student in the fourth Grade of Bilingual Primary Teaching Degree and welcome to my blog of this subject, which is called "Measurements for Children"! Here, I will upload aspects, news, and sections which are interesting for me in order to apply for students who belong Primary School, with the aim of being focused in the development of their ideas of measurement, inside the subject of mathematics, finding the implementation of teachers to maths sessions, as well as, the utility for their real daily life. You are free to make me any recommendations or comments and to share all the information that you want. I hope you enjoy reading my entries and learn a lot of measurement concepts and issues.