{"id":43424,"date":"2022-04-04T20:49:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T20:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=43424"},"modified":"2022-04-04T20:49:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T20:49:50","slug":"math-what-is-mensuration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-what-is-mensuration\/","title":{"rendered":"Math: what is mensuration?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring math, terms arise. The tutor mentions <em>mensuration<\/em>.<\/h2>\n<p>\n<em>Mensuration<\/em> means determining quantities that can&#8217;t be measured directly from ones that can. Basic measurements or observations, arrived at using a measuring tool such as a ruler, protractor, watch, etc, are input into a given formula to arrive at a result not accessible by direct measurement.<\/p>\n<p>\nMensuration can be used to find heights, weights, and volumes of large objects; it&#8217;s also the way that forecasting is performed.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehealthboard.com\/what-is-mensuration.htm\">thehealthboard.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring math, terms arise. The tutor mentions mensuration. Mensuration means determining quantities that can&#8217;t be measured directly from ones that can. Basic measurements or observations, arrived at using a measuring tool such as a ruler, protractor, watch, etc, are input &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-what-is-mensuration\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Math: what is mensuration?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43424"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43427,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43424\/revisions\/43427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}