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Subject:   RE: Converting units tools.
Author: jd
Date: Jun 29 2006
On Jun 28 2006, denisef wrote:
> I reviewed our sixth grade benchmarks and saw that our students were
> weak in converting units. The examples on the tool at this site are
> too difficult. Could you prepare activities in which students only
> convert standard to standard measures (example, yards to feet,
> inches to yards) or metric to metric ( centimeters to meters, etc.)
> I would find this very helpful. Thanks. Denise

Thanks for the suggestion. I can see how the examples could be challenging for
sixth graders. I've prepared some problem sets as you describe at:
http://enlvm.usu.edu/ma/nav/activity.jsp?sid=math_3&cid=examples&lid=1&preview=true&aid=1018847733

Note that I didn't provide cover stories for them. If you want to create your
own problem sets and cover stories, download the zip file from:
http://nlvm.usu.edu/download/mathtools/cu.zip , edit the xml files it contains,
and email it to nlvm AT math DOT usu DOT edu. You should be able to open them in
notepad.

Hope that helps.
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