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Publication Date: 2005-Oct
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Teaching Significant Figures Using Age Conversions
Crute, Thomas D.
Journal of Chemical Education, v82 n10 p1507-1508 Oct 2005
Some useful approaches to assist students with the uncertainty of measurement and the necessity of significant figures through age conversion exercise and activity are presented. It showed that while two people might be born on the same date, they are not born at the same instant once, it considers the birth time to an appropriate number of significant figures.
Descriptors: Age Differences, Numbers, Computation, Measurement Techniques, Mathematics Activities, Birth, Experiential Learning
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