What? Make teaching math easier? The objective of the education establishment is to keep teaching jobs. Not making teaching easier does not do that.
Stan Doore ----- Original Message ----- From: Cole K. To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:06 AM Subject: [USMA:42346] Re: Citizen's Briefing Book I just voted and posted a comment. My comments are as follows: "Trade efficiency would increase if we coordinated a metric system conversion for this country. The metric system is more user friendly than our current system of measurements. "Educating our children in the mathematical and science realms would be MUCH EASIER if teachers only had to teach one system of measurement to students rather than jump back-and-forth between the two measurement schemes, taking with it valuable class time that can be utilized to advance the curriculum. "We must face the fact that we live in an increasingly global world. Therefore, in the interest of global competitiveness, we must join the rest of the world and complete the conversion to the metric system. "Thank you for your consideration" Please tell me what you think of my comment. ~Cole -----Thanks!----- Cole Kingsbury Geology Undergrad-UAF http://www.uaf.edu/geology ------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Armstrong" <[email protected]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 10:52:54 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [USMA:42345] Re: Citizen's Briefing Book On 2009-01-12, at 22:56-0800, David wrote: > Well well, it looks like we have another voting website. However, > this one is on change.org and is closer to the president-elect than > change.org and the CTO website. And of course, there is a metric > idea up. It only has 50 points so far, and considering that each > vote counts for 10 points, that isn't much. Maybe this is another > chance to promote the idea since this time it's much closer to Obama > himself. Also, the top ideas only have around 2 000 votes, which is > only about 200 people. We could easily vote this up to the top. And > according to the website, the best ideas will be compiled into a > Citizen's Briefing Book, and delivered to Obama after he is sworn in. > > Here is the link to the website. http://citizensbriefingbook.change.gov/ideas/viewIdea.apexp?id=087800000004m2I&srPos=0&srKp=087 I've compiled a list of all the metric entries on the Citizens Briefing Book and a few other bits and pieces of relevant information here: http://gometric.us/xwiki/bin/view/Change/Change_GOV Paul -- Go Metric http://gometric.us/
