Dear Howard, I agree with you that this is a great lesson. However, I would like to point out that 100 square metres is a lot of vegetable garden � I struggle to keep my vegetable plot of 20 square metes in any sort of order. Cheers, Pat Naughtin Geelong, Australia 61 3 5241 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metricationmatters.com
on 2004-12-08 00.48, Howard Ressel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I had to help my son with his 6th grade math homework. The scenario > (they are learning decimal) was a garden plot where each garden was > allowed 100 m2. Based on some given criteria (ie. his dad wanted to plot > twice as many potatoes as corn) he had to use a grid to lay out the > garden and then state the size of each portion (ie. tomatoes, carrots) > in decimals. > > What a great lesson to teach the value of decimals and metric all at > the same time. It's nice to see some of the learning they do was in > metric that was not part of a specific lesson on SI. > > > Howard Ressel > Project Design Engineer, Region 4 > (585) 272-3372 >
