When we wanted to find out who was the tallest person in our class we just compared our heights. So when we wanted to find out who had the longest name in our class so we wrote our names on a piece of paper then tried to compare them but we found a problem. Some people wrote in lovely big letters and some had small writing. This made a long name look small and a small name look big. What could we do to make a comparison seem equal? Then someone remembered that to measure two things, the units of measurement need to be the same - if we all wrote in the same size squares then we could count the squares. It didn't matter if the writing was big or small! Rataimore had the longest name as she needed 9 squares to write her name.
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| Bavin pointing out some names looked big and some looked small |
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| Elena counting squares to see who had the longest name |
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