On 2008/03/16, at 5:45 AM, Bill Hooper wrote:
On 2008 Mar 14 , at 5:32 AM, Pat Naughtin wrote:
The NMAP final report did not mention:
the metric system
the International System of Units
metres (or meters)
grams
litres (or liters)
I found litres (spelled "liters") mentioned several times in
examples such as the following one:
For example, the reasoning that “if five people need 12.5 liters of
water for a camping trip, then eight people need 20 liters” would
be accepted as a sensible rule-of-thumb in everyday life.
It almost seems like they are ASSUMING metric will be used so they
don't bother STATING that metric should be used.
Dear Bill,
I searched again but did not find the word liter (or litre) in the
NMAP final report at all. Are we reading the same report? I
downloaded my copy of the final report as a Microsoft Word document
from: http://www.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/mathpanel/index.html
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