Bill,
You have fallen into a common trap. You wrote "Ye olde ...". The word "Ye"
first word should be "Þe" ("Þ" is a close approximation to the old English
letter "thorn" - still used in Iceland and in this mail).
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Bill Hooper
Sent: 30 November 2009 16:54
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:46215] Re: content inch pound meter gram
We were talking about school children not specialists. I agreed that
teaching conversion may be a useful process to learn, but it should wait
until algebra and it could be used to convert units OTHER THAN Olde English
units. (I gave a number of examples in my earlier reply.) Once the process
is learned, it can be adapted for use with ANY units, Ye Olde English ones
or any other, no matter how archaic. When the specialist encounters the
situation, he or she will be able to handle it at that time. It was not
necessary for the would-be-specialist to know how to do it with Old English
units way back when they were still grade school students.
Bill Hooper
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On Nov 29 , at 9:48 AM, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Saturday 28 November 2009 14:15:05 Bill Hooper wrote:
>> On Nov 28 , at 1:49 PM, Robert H. Bushnell wrote:
>>> Conversion from inch-pound units to metric
>>> units may be used as examples in algebra.
>>
>> There is no good reason to teach conversion from inch-lb to metric.
>
> I disagree. If all new surveys are labeled in meters, surveyors will be
> working with old maps and deeds labeled in feet and chains for at least
> another hundred years. Not everyone will need to convert, but there are
> enough specialties where it is needed that it should be taught.
