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Fostering Students' Initial Understanding of Area Measurement through the Idea of Consistency and Inverse Relationship of Unit

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Available Online February 2018.
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10.2991/ice-17.2018.34How to use a DOI?
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area measurement; identical units; inverse relationship; unit consistency
Abstract

This study examined the way of helping fifteen-third grade students of the elementary school to understand the area measurement through the area unit. Two main concepts of area unit discussed in this study were the idea of unit consistency and the inverse relationship between the number of predetermined units and unit size itself. The approach of the study was designed to research on area measurement by using Indonesian Realistic Mathematics Education (IRME). Photo frame was used as the context of learning activities. Series of comparing-measuring tasks were set over the learning process. The result indicates that the context of photo frame in learning activities could trigger the need for the tool (unit) to measure the area through comparing task. On the other hand, the students could develop the idea of identical units to fairly compare some two-dimensional regions through the measuring task on the photo frame. The result also suggests that the students developed the idea of the inverse relationship between the number of units and the size of the predetermined unit during the covering activity

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the First Indonesian Communication Forum of Teacher Training and Education Faculty Leaders International Conference on Education 2017 (ICE 2017)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
February 2018
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10.2991/ice-17.2018.34
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2352-5398
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10.2991/ice-17.2018.34How to use a DOI?
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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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