Shopping online for clothes, sometimes certain chemistry questions, writing down my height does get me irritated and anxious simply because the units of measurements are not the ones I'm usually familiar with. I end up googling "convert cm to inches" etc and each time randomly clicked on some site I vaguely remember using before.
Thinking in the light of enhancing learning, this metric conversion, besides serving the abovementioned purpose - day to day purchases and routines - it has the added advantage of allowing students to clear their doubts about units and its conversion. Units and its conversion such as length and weight would be taught in primary school and sometimes, proceeding on to secondary school, students do once in awhile get confused about which way to proceed, especially when it is in the area and volume dimension e.g. from centimetre square to metre square
With this widget attached to the teacher's blog, they are free to clear their doubts without any embarrassment from teachers or fellow classmates and can 'click click' however they want and play with the different units while seeing the quick change in the decimal places.
They can possibly work out on their own mathematically to derive the conversion (in the area and volume dimension) with the answers from the widget to serve as a form of checking, either by working backwards or forward.
source of widget: blogger :)
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