Well the bean one does say ABOUT how long, guess that implies rounding to the nearest inch. I see that a lot in my son's stuff in elementary school. They learn to approximate. --
"Go for a Metric America" Howard Ressel Project Design Engineer, Region 4 (585) 272-3372 >>> On 5/17/2009 at 11:58 AM, in message <4a05379f112843ebbf004f8956a9b...@notebook>, "Michael Payne" <[email protected]> wrote: > I picked up a scrap of paper on the street outside my home the other day, > probably blew out of the garbage truck. Anyway it was a sheet filled in by an > elementary age school kids on measurement. Shows how US kids have to learn 2 > systems and don't know either one. > > Picture of Rake. > a. Longer than 1 foot > b. About 1 foot > c. longer than 1 foot > They got this one right. > > Picture of single Carrot > a. lighter than 1 kilogram > b. About 1 kilogram > c. Heavier than 1 kilogram > > They marked about 1 kilogram. How is a kid in the US going to know how much > a kilogram is? > > The interesting question to me was a picture of a green bean with an inch > ruler marked in inches only with 3 graduations in between (for 1/4, 1/2 & 3/4 > inches). The question was how many inches is the bean? To me it was 3-3/4 > inches. > > The kid marked down 3.3. The teacher put down 3.5 (in red) crossed that out > and put 4. Kids see calculators, they count the graduations and that becomes > a decimal, hence 3.3. > > This is a good example of how and why the US does so poorly in math and > science when compared to other nations. > > I think I'll make a copy of the sheet and attach. Apologies for one side > being upside down. You can have Adobe rotate it but it does the whole > document. I'll also send it to my legislators. If everyone on this list sent > this to their Congressional Representative, we might make a difference! > > Mike Payne
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