THE TIMELINE

The two previous publications have inspired me a lot to do a very entertaining activity with the children.

To introduce them in a week or two in the field of measures, in this case the meter, in each session of mathematics we could learn how they measured in different periods, starting with the Egyptian period (which I mention in another of my publications). In this way, we could learn how it was measured in Egyptian, in Greece, in Rome, in the Middle Ages and, finally, in the current age.

In each of these sessions, we would become characters from these different eras and we would measure different parts of the school such as playground, classes, dining room, as well as smaller objects such as a case, a table or a chair. At the end of each session, the children would write the results on a piece of cardboard or a piece of paper, decorating it a little, so that finally, we would create a line of time, giving as an example the measures they have been doing in class.

At the end of the week, the children will have learned a lot of history in a very simple and dynamic way, they will have understood why now we measure through the meter and they will have many tools to make measurements and comparisons without the need of having a rule next to them.