Units – Student’s Friend or Fiend?

Abstract

The idea beyond this column is to point out the difficulties that students or pupils often have when solving problems that require handling units. These include the use of the proper unit for the corresponding physical quantity during the calculation, analysis of the units and providing the result as a numerical value with a correct unit. A wish to join the efforts of all teachers to solve this problem is also expressed.

Keywords

• Conversion of units
• Dimensional analysis
• Science education
• Units of measurement