MEASURING MATTERS: HOW MEASUREMENT CONCEPTS TAUGHT IN MATHEMATICS CAN IMPACT SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDINGS ABOUT MATTER

Authors

  • Heather McMaster The University of Sydney

Keywords:

Innovative STEM pedagogy and curriculum

Author Biography

  • Heather McMaster, The University of Sydney
    Lecturer in Mathematics Education

References

Ho, A., & McMaster, H. (2019). Is ‘Capacity’ Volume? Understandings of 11 to 12-year-old Children. In G. Hine, S. Blackley, & A. Cooke (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (pp. 356-363). Perth: MERGA.

McMaster, H. (2019). Addressing misconceptions about mass and volume. In J. Diamond (Ed.). Making Connections: Proceedings of the 56th Annual Conference of the Mathematical Association of Victoria held at La Trobe University (pp. 42-46). MAV.

McMaster, H., Preston, C., Wang, H, & Perivolarellis, M. (2021). The case for a sub-element‘measuring matter’ within the Australian national numeracy learning progression. Australian Journal of Education, Vol. 65 (3): 280-298.

https://doi.org/10.1177/00049441211041855

Senzamici, L., & McMaster, H. (2019). The Heaviness of Objects and Heaviness of a Material Kind: Some 11 to 12-year-old Children’s Understandings of Mass and Density. In G. Hine, S. Blackley, & A. Cooke (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (pp. 356-363). Perth: MERGA.

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18-11-2022

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