Measurements

Question 1

What are the vocabulary in the measurements?

That children would understand?

Answer 1

Length, width, height, depth, long, short, tall, high, low, wide, narrow, deep, shallow, thick, thin, longer, shorter, taller, higher, far, further, furthest, near, close
distance apart/between, distance to… from…
kilometre (km), metre (m), centimetre (cm)
mile, ruler, metre stick, tape measure

Question 2

What are the vocabulary in the measurements?

That children would understand?

Answer 2

measure
size
compare
measuring scale, division
guess, estimate
enough, not enough
too much, too little
too many, too few
nearly, roughly, about, close to,
about the same as, approximately
just over, just under

Question 3

What are the comparative Adjectives?

Answer 3

Are used to compare a noun to another noun such as this truck is longer than this car.
1) Select the subject of the sentence (oak tree).
2) Select the noun that has more of something than the other noun (oak tree).
3) Select the verb that establishes the comparison (is).
4) Then, place the comparative adjective (taller), followed by the word than.
5) Finally, use the second noun (maple tree).
Sentence: “The oak tree is taller than the maple tree.”

Question 4

What are superlative adjective?

Answer 4

Are used to compare three or more nouns and show which is best such as big, bigger and biggest.

Question 5

Provide an example of an adjective, comparative and superlative adjectives

Answer 5

Far - further - furthest
Heavy - heavier - heaviest
Short - shorter - shortest
Long - longer - longest
Tall - taller - tallest

Question 6

What theorist was related to measurements?

Answer 6

Piaget
Piaget studied the development of the concept of measurement in children. Two of his best known works, The Child’s Construction of Space, and The Child’s Conception of Geometry include these notions. Piaget suggested that “the conservation of length is a necessary postulate for measurement” (1960, p.27); measurement is dependent on the fundamental concept that length is conserved (not altered by
spatial arrangement). He also proposed that comparison between two objects does not involve measurement but is purely perceptual if the person does not possess a spatial coordinate system.