The Giants Project

Describes a professional development program for upper elementary and middle school teachers that includes a sequence of four activities designed to foster improved understanding of the connections among measurement, ratio, scale, and proportion. (YDS)

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Computation
Elementary Education
Elementary schools
Error of Measurement
Feet
Fingers
Fractions
Hands
Head
Human Body
Lesson plans
Mathematical Concepts
Mathematics Activities
Mathematics Curriculum
Mathematics Education
Mathematics Teachers
Measurement
Middle School Teachers
Middle Schools
Numbers
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Professional Development
Ratios
Ratios (Mathematics)
Reasoning
Teacher education
Teachers
Thinking Skills
Thumb
Time on Task
Worksheets
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