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Converting compound units

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posted on 2025-06-10, 08:08 authored by Colin FosterColin Foster

Students often get confused when working with different compound units - such as converting miles per hour to meters per second, says Colin Foster, In this lesson, students think systematically about how to convert compound units.

The difficulty

Which is faster 30mph or 30m/s ? (continued in article)

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School

  • Science

Department

  • Mathematics Education

Published in

Teach Secondary

Volume

14

Issue

3

Pages

69 - 69

Publisher

Teach Secondary

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

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Reproduced with permission of the publisher

Publication date

2025-04-07

Copyright date

2025

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Colin Foster. Deposit date: 2 April 2025

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