Martin Morrison, Sirs:>....." The quiz show "Are You > Smarter than a Fifth Grader?" recently had a third-grade question: "How > many decimetres are there in a metre?"The failure of Metric System in US is > not because 'children DO NOT wish to learn" BUT because they get confronted > with DUAL standards of measurements or the USE OF HARD CONVERSIONS (alongwith > customary system of units). Labelling and Packaging is yet the main culprit > in THIS. Where learning is mandatory, children can be tought APPROXIMATION > and as they grow they know that EXACT conversions are newcessary only in > 'laboratory work, where precision is important'. How does it matter when the > child drinks his 'cocacola is dual lablelled' to exact oz fluid or exact ml > to quesnch his thirst? BUT yes, the 3rd grader or the 5th grader need to > learn that the coke can they get in school is 250 ml (instead of 222 ml). > Same coke can be lablled 7.5 oz can as (approx. 250 ml) - what's wrong the > exactness or the teaching! I am glad you are a *Metric Training & Eductional > Columnist* an educationist!So teach the children APPROXIMATIONS, so they can > make their mothers understand the Metric system and as they grow to high > school/college get in the EXACT stream. The problem we see all around SHALL > SEEM TO BE VANISHING! So long as anti-metric forces keep their 'heads erect' > their may be hardly any great results. BUT the THINK TANK must work! Is that > happening. What people tell me is *impossible for Reform of Time/Calendar* I > ask why? Are U willing to THINK ahead and remain serious? Tons of information > is lying at my Home Page: http://www.brijvij.com/My 40-years of dedication, > so far has only been a 'micro deci-second' - a new term for you, which is > micro-form of the *decimal second, I have talked i.e. 10^-6 x 1/240000th of > the day*; in a cycle of Precession of Equinoxes. The day is equated as: 24h x > 60' x60" :: 24h x 100'(md) x100" (sd). Duration of the SI, second, s, shall > be reciprocal of 36% of 'decimal second (sd). I offer the Esiest, Surest and > Cheapest way out for a possible World calendar! We fight of grammer rather > than trying to achieve TARGETS. I am but a man-on-street who THINKS big for > America! THINK AHEAD, THINK METRIC, sirs.SIncerly, Brij Bhushan Vij Monday, 2013 April 08H15:23(decimal)EST Aa Nau Bhadra Kritvo Yantu Vishwatah -Rg Veda The Astronomical Poem (revised number of days in any month) "30 days has July,September, April, June, November and December all the rest have 31 except February which has 29 except on years divisible evenly by 4; except when YEAR divisible by 128 and 3200 - as long as you remember that "October (meaning 8) is the 10th month; and December (meaning 10) is the 12th BUT has 30 days & ONE OUTSIDE of calendar-format" Jan:31; Feb:29; Mar:31; Apr:30; May:31; Jun:30 Jul:30; Aug:31; Sep:30; Oct:31; Nov:30; Dec:30 (365th day of Year is World Day) ******As per Kali V-GRhymeCalendaar***** "Koi bhi cheshtha vayarth nahin hoti, purshaarth karne mein hai" My Profile - http://www.brijvij.com/bbv_2col-vipBrief.pdf Author had NO interaction with The World Calendar Association except via Media & Organisations to who I contributed for A Possible World Calendar, since 1971. HOME PAGE: http://www.brijvij.com/ Contact via E-mail: [email protected] OR
"GAYATRI LOK" Flat # 3013/3rd Floor NH-58, Kankhal Bypass, Dev-Bhoomi, HARIDWAR-249408 (Uttrakhand - INDIA) > Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 11:10:10 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [USMA:52631] The U.S. Isn't as Anti-metric as You Think > > The recent exchange on this list about radiological units raises a bigger > point that is often missed in discussions on the metric vs. customary > systems with the public. When it comes to most measurements, people are > not as wedded to the customary system as they think. > > Outside of a few common measurements in ordinary life -- the inch, the > mile, the pound perhaps -- customary units don't make that much difference > to people. If you say that the speed of light is 300,000 k/s or 186,000 > mi/s, how many people comprehend either? The measures are used primarily > for comparison or for standards. > > Ask people how many feet there are in a mile. Most don't know. Ask > people how many ounces there are in a pound. Most don't know. Most don't > know that there is a troy ounce used to measure gold and an avoirdupois > ounce to measure everything else. Ask people how many ounces there are in > a quart. Most don't know. Most don't even know that the ounce of mass > and the ounce of fluid are different. > > The metric system is a rational system that is easily understood, once > people get past the notion of trying to "convert." The quiz show "Are You > Smarter than a Fifth Grader?" recently had a third-grade question: "How > many decimetres are there in a metre?" This is what puts people off using > the metric system. When was the last time that you used a decimetre? > > Whenever metric measurements have been introduced as a standard, there has > been no public outcry. Have you heard of any public outcry to return to > measuring pills in grains rather than milligrams? Have you heard of any > public outcry to return to measuring wine in fluid ounces rather than > millilitres? Do people even know how many fluid ounces there are in a > bottle of wine? Do they even care? > > All this folderol about opposition to metric "conversion" is a red > herring. I decided in my daily conversations not to use feet or inches, > but metres and centimetres/millimitres. Not once has anyone asked me: > how long is that? > > One of the websites that I founded has used SI metric only for almost > twenty years now. The site has nothing to do with science or engineering, > but social issues. Most of the readers are from the United States. Not > once in twenty years has anyone even commented on the exclusive use of > metric. I think that our motto should be: Just do it! > > Martin Morrison > Metric Training & Eductional Columnist > USMA's "Metric Today" >
