Start in the elementary schools. Teach "inch" as slang for an approximate 25mm module, and then teach millimeters from then on. Within 10 years you'd balkanize the meaning of the word "inch".
Nat -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Joy Sent: Thursday, 2002 August 01 19:38 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:21489] Re: metric in schools True again, John. All the more reason to get the media to start referring to metric units AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Waiting for Congress to get around to it will waste valuable time. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 12:11 PM Subject: [USMA:21471] Re: metric in schools | 2002-07-31 | | That's Great! But, how many of these kids use metric units in their daily | lives? It is one thing to be taught only in metric and another thing to use | it on the street, in the home and elsewhere. I just wonder how many of | these kids, when they are adults, will claim never to have learned metric in | the school or would claim they forgot it and go on their merry way measuring | in FFU. | | | John | | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Jim Elwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Sent: Wednesday, 2002-07-31 12:44 | 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 | > | |
