I notice that the metric pages on their web site give special thanks to you.
Congratulations. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On >Behalf Of G. Stanley Doore >Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 09:25 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:24279] Re: If War Comes > > >Teaching SI in science and technology courses and classes is not a waste of >time since S&T is already mostly metric. Montgomery County (MC) is the >bio-tech corridor of the nation since it is near the US National Institutes >of Health. > >The SI was put into the science program for MC schools this fall and now it >is beginning to put it into the curriculum. Things don't get done >instantaneously so it will take time. It has taken a year to get to this >point in the school system, but it's a start. If you don't start you'll >never get finished. We have a very bright and forward thinking >Superintendent (Jerry Weast) who made it possible for the 138 000 student >system. He told me personally a couple of weeks ago that he is >committed to >the SI. > >The MC school system is now beginning to use the SI standards and the SI >writing style and it will include the ISO standard date time format. For >the time being, teachers are left to the teaching method most suited to the >class since each is different in terms of course content and grade level. > >The focus is on science and technology rather than on consumer >items you see >in stores. A basic teaching tool is the relationship diagram of the SI and >its derivatives which you can get from the USMA. The diagram brings it all >together visually. I distributed the diagram back in the 1970s when there >was a national push for metric. > >Science and technology is mostly metric now so students will be better >prepared for good jobs in those fields. > >Stan Doore > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 9:41 AM >Subject: [USMA:24276] Re: If War Comes > > >> 2002-12-30 >> >> You say the Montgomery County School System in Maryland is committed to >the >> SI. Can you explain how they teach SI? Do you know for sure how they >teach >> it? For example, do they teach SI as a primary system with actual hands >on >> experience using SI measuring devices? Or, do they teach SI as a subset >to >> FFU? In other words, is their method to teach FFU and when SI is >> introduced, all that is taught is how to convert SI to FFU? >> >> Whatever the method, teaching SI to the students is like teaching >Esperanto >> to American students. Five minutes after you learn it, you forget it as >you >> have no practical means to use it. This is why it is important to at >least >> metricate those parts of the economy that would reinforce the teaching, >such >> as grocery store scales, media weather forecasts, gasoline >sales, and road >> signs. >> >> Without some form of metrication taking place in the real world, the >> educational aspect of it is a waste of time and money. >> >> John >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "G. Stanley Doore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Monday, 2002-12-30 09:21 >> Subject: [USMA:24275] Re: If War Comes >> >> >> > Not much has changed. >> > >> > US Marine infantry types still use yards whereas Marine artillery and >> other >> > weapon systems are metric. It's still a mixture. >> > >> > We must have the SI taught in schools rather than any old metric system >so >> > kids know and understand the relationship of units in the single common >> > language of measurement worldwide. It's necessary if they want to get >> good >> > science and technology jobs. The Montgomery County School System here >in >> > Maryland is committed to the SI. >> > >> > Stan Doore >> > >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: "Howard Ressel" Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 8:47 AM >> > Subject: [USMA:24274] If War Comes >> > >> > >> > No, its not the Iraq version, this has to do with a book I found at a >used >> > book fair written in 1938 by R. Ernest Dupuy and George Fielding Eliot. >It >> > discusses the military situation in 1937, very spooky reading about how >> they >> > thought the US should stay out of the war and that we would never be >able >> to >> > recover the Philippines if we lost them. >> > >> > What is interesting (at least for this list) is that the book mixes >metric >> > and English units throughout. One table of rifles for different >countries >> is >> > a real hodgepodge. The country and type of rifle is listed along with >it >> > effective and maximum range. Effective ranges are listed in yards for >all >> > countries while maximum ranges are listed in meters for France, German, >> > Italy, Japan, Czechoslovakia and Spain, listed in Yards for Great >Britain >> > and the US and listed in paces for Russia. Most distance in >the book are >> in >> > yards and miles but almost all munition caliber are listed in mm. The >main >> > exception is battle ship guns all listed in inches. >> > >> > >> > Howard Ressel >> > Project Design Engineer, Region 4 >> > (585) 272-3372 >> > >> > >> >> >
