Great approach in learning the SI, Paul.
That's one reason why we've got the Montgomery County Public School
(MCPS)system of nearly 140 000 students here in Maryland to teach and
exclusively use the SI in its science classes and courses. Since students
must take science and math to graduate high school, it's a great way to
have significant impact on learning the SI, including teaching and learning
decimal point placement. The dancing decimal point would be ideal for Pre-K
kids and older people alike to learn decimal point placement and the utility
of it with the SI thru animated graphics and cartoons.
Keep up the good work. Paul.
Regards, Stan Doore
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Trusten, R.Ph." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 10:15 PM
Subject: [USMA:37984] a radical notion on SI units(?)
I have a wild kind of conclusion for all of this---let encourage the people
of
the U.S. to learn how SI works! Let's learn to move that handy, dancing
decimal
point and apply the right prefix. I think we should all be fluent in the
concept
of the decimal metric system, so it can be said that we never met a
multiple we
didn't like (grin). For example, we should be able to read 175 cm as 1750
mm by
inspection, just as we read "$0.25" as twenty-five cents without thinking
about
it.
--
Paul Trusten, R.Ph.
Public Relations Director
U.S. Metric Association, Inc.
Phone (432)528-7724
www.metric.org
3609 Caldera Boulevard, Apartment 122
Midland TX 79707-2872 USA
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