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History of Measurement
History of Measurement
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The early English inch was defined as photo credit: Andrew Robinson
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Lipka, Jerry, Tod Shockey and Barbara Adams. “Bridging Yup’ik Ways of
Measuring to Western Mathematics” in Learning and Teaching
Measurement: 2003 Yearbook. Ed. Douglas Clements and George
Bright. The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Inc,
Reston, VA. 2003
Whitelaw, Ian. A Measure of All Things: the story of man and measurement.
Quid publishing, Hove, England. 2007