The Case of the Mystery Bone
A Unit of Work on Measurement for Grades 5 to 8
Doug Clarke
The Case of the Mystery Bone is a fully documented three to five week unit. Students must piece together information about a mystery person using data that they collect about themselves and their class members. They explore the relationships between the sizes of various parts of the body, and discover the importance of surface area in medicine. The unit links mathematics with art, anthropology and forensic science. A rich experience for you and your students! Mathematical topics covered are measuring lengths and surface area, percentage, decimals and fractions, ratio and proportion, metric units and so on.
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ISBN-10: 0-958662-05-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-9586620-5-5
Year Levels: 5 - 8
Publisher:
MANSW (Australia)
Page Count:
50
Cover type: Soft cover, spiral bound
Publication date: 1996
Product number:
MAN467
Keywords: Classroom material, Instructional method, Modelling/Applied mathematics, Number, Problem solving, Space/Measurement
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