Pat, Correct, of course, but at least they're on to the right system All they have to do is move the decimal point around a bit which is a thousand times easier than having to learn a myriad of unrelated conversion factors.
Let's hope US schoolchildren will be spared the pain of that type of conversion in the shortest time possible. Regards Mike Joy Perth, Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Naughtin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 8:19 AM Subject: [USMA:21485] Re: metric in schools | Dear John, | | You raise a fascinating point here. | | I have been concerned for a long time with the state of metric education in | Australian schools. Sure they all teach metric measures, principally | centimetres, but this does not help to prepare Australian children for | Australian industry that uses predominantly millimetres. | | To put this in a context that you have heard me use before. Children are | helped to develop a centimetre mindset during their school years. It is only | when they leave school that they begin to learn to measure in the way | Australian industry measures. | | Cheers, | | Pat Naughtin CAMS | Geelong, Australia
