Metric is incredible when it comes to making quick estimates in one's head.
On 9/8/05, Nat Hager III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
While we're discussing math excercies, here's a good relevant problem I
discussed in intro physics class today:
The media are reporting that at least one pump is pumping out about 27,000
gallons/min of water from New Orleans, which I take to be a soft conversion
of 100,000 liters/min. How long does it take to drain a given area, given
an estimated depth of the water? In metric you do it in one or two steps in
your head, in Imperial get out the calcuator....
Nat
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Some of my kids text books treat it independently. Some of my son's math
exercises where units were required but not the subject of the lesson, were
in metric. My kids learn it as a system. The problem is there is no place
for them to apply it other than the lesson they learn, science class etc.
Howard Ressel
Project Design Engineer, Region 4
(585) 272-3372
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I suspect they teach it as conversions, and not as the stand-alone system it
should be.
Carleton
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> --- "Hillger, Don" wrote:
> > I think two of the most basic ways to promote metric
> > are:
> >
> > 1) Work to make sure our schools teach metric to youngsters ...
>
> I thought all US public schools taught metric these days. Is this not
> correct?
>
> Rod Jones
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