What is measurement?

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The document discusses measurement and introduces several measurement units to spark curiosity about what measurement means. It tasks the reader with exploring measurement in more depth by researching different measurement systems, unusual measurement methods, or the history of measurement. The reader is instructed to create a one-page presentation and provided with starting resources on various measurement topics, like vision, units, and the history of different measurement standards.

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Measurement
Before we get into measuring things and applying what we know, we need to understand
what measurement actually means. We’ve concluded that it is more than weight and
length. Let’s continue our exploration. Consider some of these questions below to trigger
your curiosity:

• What does 20/20 vision mean?
• Why are font sizes on computers measured in points?
• What is a pica?
• Why is a cricket pitch the length that it is?
• What is a yardstick?
• What is a carat?
• What does a “peck of pickled peppers” mean?
• What is cubit?
• When would we use a fathom?

Interesting?

Your task is to explore more about what measurement means. You can put together a
collection of facts. You can explore more deeply one system of measurement. Perhaps you
will put together a history of measurement. Are there some really “strange” ways of
measuring?

We’ll keep the presentation relatively simple. You can put together a one page presentation
on Pages. We can then save it as a PDF and copy-paste it into your Google Doc.

Remember, this is YOUR exploration. Have fun inquiring into measurement. If there is
something you’d like to look at or do, let me know and we can work it out together.

Here are some resources to get you started:

http://atlantis.coe.uh.edu/archive/science/science_lessons/scienceles3/measure/index.html

http://www.visionlearning.com/library/module_viewer.php?mid=47

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units#History

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_measurement

http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?ParagraphID=cah

http://www.gamequarium.org/cgi-bin/search/linfo.cgi?id=12046

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What is measurement?

1. Measurement Before we get into measuring things and applying what we know, we need to understand what measurement actually means. We’ve concluded that it is more than weight and length. Let’s continue our exploration. Consider some of these questions below to trigger your curiosity: • What does 20/20 vision mean? • Why are font sizes on computers measured in points? • What is a pica? • Why is a cricket pitch the length that it is? • What is a yardstick? • What is a carat? • What does a “peck of pickled peppers” mean? • What is cubit? • When would we use a fathom? Interesting? Your task is to explore more about what measurement means. You can put together a collection of facts. You can explore more deeply one system of measurement. Perhaps you will put together a history of measurement. Are there some really “strange” ways of measuring? We’ll keep the presentation relatively simple. You can put together a one page presentation on Pages. We can then save it as a PDF and copy-paste it into your Google Doc. Remember, this is YOUR exploration. Have fun inquiring into measurement. If there is something you’d like to look at or do, let me know and we can work it out together. Here are some resources to get you started: http://atlantis.coe.uh.edu/archive/science/science_lessons/scienceles3/measure/index.html http://www.visionlearning.com/library/module_viewer.php?mid=47 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_measurement http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?ParagraphID=cah http://www.gamequarium.org/cgi-bin/search/linfo.cgi?id=12046

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