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Don't forget that tapes are I inclined to stretch with use. You have to be
careful as to the material from which they are made/ Paddy Wade MITS

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From: Informal Science Education Network
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Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 7:08 PM
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Subject: Re: Measuring tools for math related exhibits

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Dear Nina,

I learned from our very own Tom Humphrey to use a buck for small  
stuff... it is a half a foot long (6" plus a little (a little is 1/8"))  
and everybody has one.

Ken

P.S. the buck coins don't work for this
On Jun 6, 2007, at 1:11 PM, nina hido wrote:

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> I am aware that measuring tools have been used by many museums as a  
> part of different math related exhibits. Are there any rules of thumb  
> that I can apply to a set of new exhibits the Exploratorium is  
> currently prototyping?
>
> For example:
> Wooden rulers break
> Measuring tape works better than a ruler
> Visitors don't know where to start the measurement so the start-point  
> needs to be very obvious
> etc
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> Thanks for any hints and lessons learned.
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