nonstandard unit

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nonstandard unit

A force requirement identified in a time-phased force and deployment data for which movement characteristics have not been described in the type unit characteristics file. The planner is required to submit detailed movement characteristics for these units.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.

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With a nonstandard unit of measurement, a fuel request may be converted between metric and imperial gallons four or more times as it moves from the forward support company back to a Defense Logistics Agency country contract.

Multinational Sustainment Is Essential to the Next Fight: The Multi-Domain Battle environment requires the Army to operate as part of joint, multinational force down to the tactical level. This force will require integrated multinational sustainment of forces

The teaching materials covered four topics: the preservation of area, comparison of area using a nonstandard unit, indirect comparison of area, and measuring area using multiplication.

Using magic board as a teaching aid in third grader learning of area concepts

Finding a comparison or nonstandard unit for measuring weight proved more difficult.

Use Measuring Penny to introduce the unit. (Link to Literature)

The students believed that the numbers should be equidistant but could not make the connection with using a nonstandard unit to establish the scale.

Creating numerical scales for measuring tools

We found it incredibility interesting that students used the length of their own feet as estimation tools and thought maybe this was because they used their own feet as nonstandard units of measure when first learning about measuring in the primary grades.

Robotics in mathematics: engaging students in perimeter

Ed, Tessa, Aida and Dan join the contest "Amazing Estimators." They estimate the length of the objects by using nonstandard units.

Nobel Prize winner shuns `luxury journals'

The use of nonstandard units keeps the focus at this stage on some important principles of measurement; no gaps or overlaps of the units and the use of one regular unit.

Australian curriculum: linked lessons

Topics covered include identifying the type of coordinate system for data using ArcMap, modifying a standard coordinate system, aligning rotated CAD data, and applying nonstandard units when standard coordinate systems don't work.

Lining up data in ArcGIS; a guide to map projections, 2d ed

Children should have many opportunities to measure real objects, both with standard and nonstandard units, and to estimate the measurement of an object.

Using children's literature to teach measurement

The purpose of this investigation is for children to recognize the attributes of length, use nonstandard units to compare objects by length, discover the need for standard units of measurement for length, and represent lengths of objects in standard units of measurement.

A mathematical measurement mystery

An accompanying CD includes all the blackline masters, extra reading material, and computer applets for students to explore measurement with nonstandard units.

Navigating through Measurement in Prekindergarten-Grade 2

Mathematically, students used nonstandard units of measure, counted and wrote numbers, and demonstrated use of one-to-one correspondence.