Estimation performance of the third and fourth grade students about measurement

Abstract

In this study, third and fourth grade primary school students’ performance of measurement estimation in real life situations was examined. Participants were third and fourth grade students. Totally 330 (130 third grades and 200 fourth grades) students in two primary schools located in Istanbul in a middle socioeconomic neighborhood attended. The data were collected with a measuring instrument consisting of six questions including linear measurements of real objects (classroom door, their desks and their mathematics course book). According to the results of the study, it can be concluded that except the one question in every questions more than half of the students could not estimate the measurements of the objects correctly. Both third and fourth grade students estimated the measurement of the height of the classroom door. The performance of the students in the other five questions seems to be low. Another result of the study that both groups have issues while estimating measurements of the real life situations. © The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology.