Games to practice the concept of mass

Hi there! 

The other day, I explained you some interesting games to practice the concept of length with students, and today, I've decided that I want to share a new game, this time to practice the concept of mass.

First game: Searching for "gold nuggets" (I)

In this game, we would create gold nuggets of equal size but different materials: little stones or pieces of paper, and students should find them around the class. In groups, they would have to try to found the most number of gold nuggets. Once they have found all the gold nuggets, by groups, they would have to calculate the total mass using a weighing scales. Students would have gold nuggets of different mass, so they would realize that, maybe, some groups can have more gold nuggets than others, but less mass. This way, students should reflect about this fact, and with our help, they would realize that the number of gold nuggets doesn't matter if we want to measure the mass, because even the size seems equal, depending on the material, the mass would be different.

Second game: Searching for "gold nuggets" (II)

In the first game, students realized that, even the size was the same, taking into account that the material of the gold nuggets was different, some of them had more mass than others. Nevertheless, so as to ensure that they understand that if they are of the same material, the mass would be the same, we would repeat this activity, but in this case, only with the gold nuggets created with little painted stones. They'd repeat the process of searching the stones around the class, but this time, they would realize that the group with more number of stones is the one who have more mass. Again, they'd have to reflect about it. We'd tell them that they have to see if the material is different. Once they'd have realized that the material of every stone is the same, we'd explain them that, if the material and the size is the same, these objects would have the same mass too. 

What can I do if the NBA wants to employ me?

Hi guys!

Today, I've been searching some activities to share with you, and I have found a really exciting one! It'd be a good challenge for the students so... let's go!

WHAT CAN I DO IF THE NBA WANTS TO EMPLOY ME?

I think that a good challenge for Primary students would be to tell them that the NBA is interested in employing them... but for that, they have to follow some steps. 

First question: Do you know that, in the NBA, the height of the players is expressed in feet and inches, and their weight in pounds? If they want to employ you and play with them, you have to know this ways of measuring. United States, Liberia and Burma are not related to the International System of Units (SI), so they have their own measurement units. So as to be able to know your dimensions, you need to know what is the relation between feet and inches, and centimetres or metres: 

A foot	30, 48 cm
3,28 feet	A metre
A inch	2,54 cm
0,39 inches	A centimetre
A pound	453,592 grams
2,20462 pounds	A kilogram

To start with, you need to know your height and your weight. Then transform it!

I measure ___ metres --> I measure ___ inches

My weight is ___ kilograms --> My weight is ___ pounds

Second question: Now, you have to imagine that they told you that to arrive at your new home, you have to walk 25 miles. You have to discover how many kilometres 25 miles are. But... how can you do that? I help you! 1,61 kilometres correspond to a mile, and a kilometre corresponds to 0,62 miles.

Third question: Now, they told you that from the pavilion to your home, you have to drive! The speed limits are expressed in miles per hour, so you don't know them. Let's change the Spanish speed limits (km/h) to the United States ones, expressed in mi/h.

Maximum speed	Spain (km/h)	United States (mi/h)
Motorway	120 km/h
Road	100 km/h
Streets	50 km/h

What do you think about it? I believe it's a brilliant idea to work with students! They will enjoy the process and won't get bored. I challenge you to put into practice in your class! 

See you in the next post. Bye bye!

You can find activities like this one in the following link: "Se aprende a medir midiendo, y a usar medidas usándolas".

Games to practice the concept of length

Hi there!!!

Today, I'm here to share with you some games you can use with the students so as to start teaching the concept of length, so they are thought for little children. I hope you'll like it!

First game: Creating necklaces!

You need several materials of different length for creating necklaces. Each students should choose ten pieces and introduce them in a rope. After that, they should reflect about the length of each necklace: have all of them the same length? does the length of the necklace depend on the chosen materials? how can they know the length of each necklace?... Then, it'd be good to challenge them to do a shorter necklace, a longer necklace... using different materials.

Second game: Throwing bottle caps!

For this game, we need several bottle caps. Each students should throw the bottle cap from the same place. They will have to observe which bottle cap is farer and, as a consequence, which distance from them to the bottle cap is longer. We'll discuss with them which segment is the longest, the shortest... and it'd be essential to challenge them, telling them things that are not true, so as to see if they correct us or not and to confirm that they understand the concept of length properly. Then, they will have to measure with a meter the length, so as to verify their hypotheses.

Finally, it'd be interesting that children repeat this activity, but starting from different points. This way, it'd be more difficult to know which one of the created segments is the longest, the shortest...

Third game: The game of ropes

For this game, we only need 5 ropes of the same length. The students, organised in 5 groups, have to put their rope in the floor in the way they want to. Then, all of us, we have to observe the different ropes and, as teachers, we'd ask students several questions: Are all the ropes equal? Is the length of the ropes the same? Because each rope occupies a different space, or not? If we put all the ropes as a straight line, what happens? This way, children will understand that, even at first sight, it can seem that they are different, all the ropes have the same length; depending on how we put them (straight, curved, with a square shape...), the visual image is different, but the length is the same. Then, students should measure the ropes, so as to verify that all of them are of the same length.

That's it! These are the games I wanted to show you today... I hope they'll be useful for you.. If you want more games... you only have to comment it below. See you soon!!!

Mundo primaria

Hi guys! How are you?

Today I want to talk to you about another interesting webpage called mundo primaria. It seems really interesting and I'm sure children will find it extremely engaging! Do you want to know more about it? Let's read this post!

In this platform, we can practice all the subjects of Primary Education, and we have access to several games with which students can play and review concepts related to measurement of the mass, length, weight, time, capacity, etc. depending on their age and previous knowledge. The activities are organised in different levels and they are created for the students, so the different objects with which they'll work in the tasks are ones that they observe daily.

In this picture, you can observe how the tasks are divided in the different cycles of Primary Education:

As you can see, as teachers, we only have to select the cycle in which we are giving class and choose some activities that we like. For the students, it can be useful and enjoyable at the same time, so I firmly believe that it's a good resource for our classes.

If we use it in the class, we can organise the students in several groups, so they can do the activities cooperatively. But we can also do it individually, it depends on how we want to work with them.

On top of that, we can also us this webpage while we explain some concepts, using some examples so as to ensure that children understand the lesson. Finally, it'd be good for children to know the existence of this resource too, because they'd use it at home to practice some contents, knowing if they are doing and learning it properly or not.

What do you think about this tool? I think it'd be really useful if we use it in a good way. I'd like to know how you'd use it!

Thank you very much! See you in the next post ✌

Innovaeduca

Hi everyone!

To begin with, I want to tell you that, as you know, I'm from Spain, and now we're living a quarantine due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) but I'll continue with this blog, trying to share with you some ideas to work with students when this problem ends or even for giving them some links with which they could practice some contents related to measurement at home. I hope it'll be useful for you and you'll enjoy with it and get a bit entertained. Together, this situation will end soon! We can!

Today, I want to talk to you about Innovaeduca, a webpage in which thanks to a character called Metrín, Primary students can review how can they measure the units of length, weight and capacity. On top of that, they'll know the instruments they can use at home to measure these dimensions. They'll learn everything using interactive games and daily objects that, probably, they already know. 

There's something else to think about and it's that in this webpage, we also have some activities to do estimations. Sometimes, we don't work this type of measurement, and I'm convinced that it is also essential to develop children reasoning and to ensure that they'll be able to estimate some measurement in their daily life if they don't have the instruments to do it precisely. 

As I've already said, I hope you'll find this resource useful and interesting. These days, I'll be searching for new ideas to share with you. Let me some comments if you want to know about something, I'll be glad to read some recommendations.

Take care of you and stay home! See you soon!

Welcome to my blog!

Hello everybody! And welcome to Edu-measurement!

I'm Antonio Pulido Bravo and I'm currently finishing my degree in Primary Education at the University of Málaga 😺. This year, I've a subject called "Measurement Teaching" and one of the activities I have to do is sharing this blog with you. I'm sure it'll be amazing and we'll enjoy and learn together! 

Last year, I already had a blog related to Geometry, and the process of creating it and searching for different activities to work that field of mathematics was fascinating. Nowadays, I have to do it related to Measurement, and I think that the learning process will be also really fruitful and I really want to start it so...

Here we are! Here, Edu-measurement starts!

I'll be reading you so, feel free to comment and tell me your opinion. It's always welcome and I'm sure that could help me to improve!

See you soon!