It has reallly come that far: now Dutch children may be taught ifp in Duch secondary schools if their teacher picks up certain lessons from the Internet, for instance, and then proceeds to teach them to his pupils! I have found on the Internet this lesson in using graphic converters developed for Dutch secondary schools with metric and British units. . . .
Han:
As distressing as this may be on the surface, several key questions pop into my mind:
(1) What portion of Dutch teachers get their lesson materials off the net? I believe in US public schools teachers are pretty much told what they can teach, and in general would not be pulling stuff of the web.
(2) Of the portion of Dutch teachers that may pull something off the web, what portion would see the IFP stuff and still want to teach it? In other words, is it unreasonable to presume most Dutch teachers are progressive enough not to subject children to IFP calculations?
I guess what I am asking is this: although the existence of such a lesson on the internet is unfortunate, is it really any substantive threat to metric usage?
Jim Elwell
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