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   Guest_ | Feb 06, 2000 07:09am | #1

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   ..............enlarge a section of your tape on a copy machine....keep blowing it up until you've got the size you need...cut and paste text

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   Guest_ | Feb 06, 2000 07:46am | #2

   *Doug,Why don't you just draw one on an 8 1/2" x 11" paper and copy it? If you blow up a picture, it won't be to scale anyway.Ed. Williams

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   Guest_ | Feb 07, 2000 12:20am | #3

   *Doug just wondering; how old are the students?jim

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   Guest_ | Feb 07, 2000 01:20am | #4

   *Doug,

   Here's a novel idea. . . Give everyone a tape measure. . .

   Joseph FuscoView Image"Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblance's to that truth." Socrates

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   Guest_ | Feb 07, 2000 01:35am | #5

   *Joe, thats what I was thinking. I think you can get a cheapo tiwianese tape for two or three bucks at Home Depo etc. Then they could actually measure something with it [maybe not very accurately though :-)

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   Guest_ | Feb 07, 2000 05:10am | #7

   *Doug, years (decades)ago when I was in high school, the math teacher explained logarithms by having us plot out two logarithmetic scales on cardboard strips... we could then use these like crude C & D scales of a slide rule (some of us out here have actually used this archaic device). Although the math wasn't too accurate, I have never forgotten the nature of logarithms. So....Why not have your students make their own tape measures, say on a scale of 1/4"=1/16"? They would have a large enough scale to work with that they could make the necessary marks, and the exercise of dividing their "inch" into halves, quarters, eights and sixteenths would teach the fractional concepts you're hoping they'll learn.Then you can switch them to actual tape measures as Joe and Chuck have suggested.Fractionally, Steve

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   Doug_Stewart | Feb 07, 2000 05:10am | #6

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   Does anyone know of a web site where I could find a good, printable visual aid for teaching tape measure basics? I'd like to print out a segment of a tape measure broken down to at least 16th's of an inch for a class hand out.