by: Matthew Anticole
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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 9/1/2012Stock # ss12_036_01_42Volume 036Issue 01
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Swapping Units
This article introduces a card game entitled "Swap Meet" to helps students see that converting units is like swapping equal items in the card game. The rules for the game are discussed in d... See More
This article introduces a card game entitled "Swap Meet" to helps students see that converting units is like swapping equal items in the card game. The rules for the game are discussed in detail, but I got lost in the explanation. Then the article goes on to describe how to use the game to explore unit conversion and gives examples of some cards used to do this. There is a link to get a set of cards to print for the Swap Meet. It would have been nice to have a source of cards that had conversion factors on them to print.
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