Tim wrote: "Spell checker knows CM(S)
and does not know DM(S) as it is written."
Nor do I. Perhaps you could enlighten me and
the rest of us.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
-----Original Message-----Hi there again;
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Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 19:56
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:27475] DM ? Ask a teacher in grade,high school
Seeing the talks about keeping it simple has brought back some memories
of 5 high school math teachers in South Carolina, US.
The question that brought the 5 together was a simple question about CM(S) being written as 10 over 100 or even 10/100 and of course .01. The teachers all agreed that looked normal to them and went on to say that it could be written as 1 over 10 or even 1/10.
My response was to say that 1 over 10 or even 1/10 and .1 is DM(S).
The teachers one at a time tried to tell me that in math we round to the smallest possible number. Never did until that day had any of the 5 think that there was even a Deci. The rule of rounding filled the void as does it in the school books and even the minds of students alike. No is that any way to jump start the young minds that will need to know this metric stuff ?
Don't take my word for it but I think that there is a breakdown that would be worth looking into.
Thanks for the looks and any comments about this, Tim
PS> Even spell checker is experiencing this void.
