Egyptian measurement
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 d...
