Jim, This is the sort of e-mail I want to see, i.e.. showing some progress in Metrication in the US.
On page 8 of the Mar-Apr issue of 'Metric Today' a maths teacher in Lincoln, Nebraska is using only SI units because it's obviously much easier than using two systems (one of which has no logic at all). Let's see more teachers doing this to give American kids a fair chance. Please pass these comments on to all teacher you may have contact with. The more teachers that teach in 'metric-only' language, the faster USA will be metricated. Sincerely yours, Mike Joy Perth, Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Elwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 12:44 AM Subject: [USMA:21456] metric in schools | On a recent vacation, I spent some time with friends in Star Valley, | Wyoming. This is a beautiful, remote farming community in a valley | surrounded by mountains, about an hour's drive south of Yellowstone | National Park. | | The wife half of these friends is a 3rd grade schoolteacher in this valley. | She informed me that all grades learn metric ONLY -- they do not teach | anything using inches or other colloquial units, at least in K-6 grades. | She did not know for sure what the 7-12 grades did, but believed they also | used metric. | | Seems to me we are making progress, when metric is being taught in such a | remote part of the country. | | Jim Elwell, CAMS | Electrical Engineer | Industrial manufacturing manager | Salt Lake City, Utah, USA | www.qsicorp.com | |
