Egyptian measurement

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The measurement is something that has been done from ancestral times, and it has progressed over the centuries. We, human beings, need in some moment of our life to measure different aspects as the time, the quantity or the length of an object. As it is necessary and indispensable knowledge, our students will have their own experience, which will give the class an interesting point of starting.

As a result of all the centuries in which the human beings have been measured everything, we can find a wide amount of different techniques, and unit of measurements from which our students will open their eyes and they will develop their spatial thinking and creativity.


We can find several examples of societies that used different units of measurement the length. For example, the Egyptians, used the elbow,  the palm and the finger as units of measurement (Illana, 2012). They have a table that unified in some way these units:


It is important to make students aware of the different units of measurements that they can use and the importance of knowing how to estimate the measurement of different objects. To do it we can incorporate in our classes different activities as can be the use of the unit of measurement of the Egyptians to give them a variety of ideas from which they can create new ones.

After an introduction to the Egyptian world, our students can become Egyptian that need to measure the length of five objects that are in the classroom. This can be developed using different methodologies and with different variations but, in the end, we will propose our students an interesting activity in which they will be the protagonists, and they will acquire the idea of the diversity and the different ways we can use to measure something.

References:

Illana, J. (2012). Matemáticas en el antiguo Egipto. Suma, 71, 47-61. Retrieved from https://revistasuma.es/IMG/pdf/71/047-061.pdf

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