ABSTRACT
A bulletin board like the one above can help children see how measurement is relevant to their everyday lives. They can be encouraged to add their own examples. Moreover, children can be prompted to analyze the examples and indicate what attribute (e.g., length, area, volume, speed, time, pressure) is being measured for each. Intermediate-level children might be urged to identify derived measures—measures that express a relationship between two quantities (e.g., speed expresses a relationship between distance and time).
