The educational supply stores around here didn't even know what it was and didn't carry it
Mike On 5/19/07, Jason Darfus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Try an education supply store. That's where I bought mine. The ones I found are double-sided (one side meter, the other side 39 inches) but they're thick and metal-tipped. They were about $5 I think. Jason On May 19, 2007, at 21:49, Mike Millet wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if any of you had any idea just where I could go to > acquire a nice (preferably wooden) meterstick. The reason I ask is > that my mother homsechooles both my sister and my brother and they > recently switched to using a curriculum from the UK that is of course > in all SI. > > The previous curriculua they have used has had maths problems in a > mixture of USC and SI, and so getting used to the SI only measures has > not been a problem for either one of the kids. However, many fruitless > trips around town has led me to believe that the meterstick must be > one rare measurement animal in the US. > > My grandmother had a meterstick that she got while in Tahiti in 1982 > but someone appears to have thrown it out long ago. > > Any ideas? > > Mike > > -- > "The boy is dangerous, they all sense it why can't you?"
-- "The boy is dangerous, they all sense it why can't you?"
