The Times News is a small local publication in North Carolina with much ignorance of the importance of SI in world trede and commerce.
The initial two questions, asking how SI units of volume and distance are related to units outside the SI, are certainly *not* the proper way to teach metric units of measurement. School children in most of the world learn metric units of measurement with *no* association with units outside the metric system, however much they continue to be used in the USA! Eugene Mechtly ________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Team Metric Info [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2013 9:54 AM To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:52941] More fanning of the metric ignorance fire...... http://www.thetimesnews.com/news/local-columnists/brent-lancaster/a-writing-form-without-real-function-1.151163 OMG- how do these people get published. The writer of this article is agreeing with the change in some public education curriculum related to teaching kids to write in cursive which, btw, he is completely wrong about from a brain development perspective. Here is the last sentence of the article: “The world is moving fast. There’s not much use for cursive writing anymore. Let’s let it go the way of instruction in the metric system.” How has the U.S become so ignorant about the metric system?
