Interesting article: http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/16881726.htm
Excerpt: "They're every bit as bright as they've ever been," said Fasman, who has taught for 16 years. However, they increasingly come hampered by smaller vocabularies, lacking knowledge of basic cell biology and unable to deal with fractions, she said. "Their math skills are rather poor," Fasman said. "When we do the metric system at the beginning of the year, it's a killer for them. When we get into genetics, sometimes it's hard for them, understanding ratios." American students -- particularly those in California -- come up short in math and science. Fourth- and eighth It doesn't seem to me that these students are "...every bit as bright as they've ever been," Of course when you keep lowering the bar, any one can appear bright. Dan ----- Original Message ---- From: STANLEY DOORE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 3:46:53 AM Subject: [USMA:38256] Re: National Mathematics Advisory Panel (NMP) The National Math Panel is working at the esoteric level and not at the practical level according to what I've seen from them. The USMA and I have made comments regarding the teaching and using the SI in schools. Regards, Stan Doore ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pierre Abbat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 7:29 PM Subject: [USMA:38253] Re: National Mathematics > On Friday 16 March 2007 17:32, Pat Naughtin wrote: >> There were no other mentions of the word metric in this preliminary >> report. > > No mentions of measuring or units either (although "unit" occurs > in "opportunity" and a few other words). > > phma > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097
