Doesn't look like a very classy conversion either. D. -----Original Message----- From: Gene Mechtly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: March 23, 2002 13:54 Subject: [USMA:19012] WLME-8 (fwd)
>---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 12:42:19 -0600 (CST) >From: Gene Mechtly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Sandy Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: WLME-8 > >Dear Sandy, > >Who is the manager at the NCTM for WLME-8? > >I downloaded the pdf file for WLME-8 and discovered statements which >prolong the handicapping of US students (now K-16 not merely K-12) >with respect to units of measurement in the purported "world's largest" >mathematics event" (WLME-8). > >Deviations from standard rules are in Activities 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. > >For example: the speed of lightning is given as "334,800,000 miles >(54,000,000 km) per hour". This expression violates NIST rules for number >of significant digits, symbols for the decimal marker, symbols for units, >and implies that SI is of secondary importance in science. > >Gene Mechtly. >
