Deciphering Marks on Your Measuring Tape/Rulers
 

I found this and thought "wow, I really need this"! There must be more math-challenged people on this Board besides me, so hope this is of use to someone....

http://www.sew4home.com/tips-resourc...measuring-tape

Joan3111

thanks for the link your not alone i am very math challenged myself and didn't know how bad i was untill i started quilting ,i can balance my ck book tho.

I taught my kids how to read a tape measure/ruler, even had a training ruler with no numbers just lines that was used years ago in school. My DD has told me it was one of the most useful skills she has. LOL It helps in so many other areas of thinking too. I think it should be taught again in school.

I was surprised at how many people did not know how to read a ruler.

Or understand why 5/16 is less than 3/4.

Rulers/tapes are a great fraction teacher........?/8 or ?/16......a brain teaser. I agree with onebyone this should be taught in school again, but then so should many other "basic" things....
we are creating a future of robots...Jmho

Thank you so much for the link. I've printed off both pages and will keep it for future reference.

I only know this because I had to teach it to second graders. :-)

Thanks so much for sharing this link! It makes it all so easy to see at a glance, instead of having to count all those lines. I have always been math challenged when it comes to fractions.

When I was living in Japan I always carried a tape measure with English measurements on one side and metric measurements on the other. Just take a measurement with one system, flip the tape measure over and you have the other measurement on the reverse. This came in handy for me when shopping for curtains and clothes. I still carry the double-sided tape measure with me today.

Maybe those of us who are "math-challenged" should join a support group, we could call it Math Anonymous! I must have been absent from school the day they taught how to read a ruler/tape measurer. The tape with the 1/16ths will really help me. But don't you love it that I could spell anonymous!