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ERIC Number: EJ604040
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-1072-0839
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Why Is the Year 2000 a Leap Year?
Wilkins, Jesse L. M.
Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, v5 n6 p360-62 Feb 2000
The study of leap year and its development offers an interesting real-world situation for students to exercise qualitative reasoning about operations on decimals. Presents an activity in which students investigate time measurement by studying a variety of calendars, past and present. (ASK)
Descriptors: Decimal Fractions, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction, Middle Schools, Secondary School Mathematics, Time
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles
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Audience: Practitioners; Teachers
Language: English
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