On Monday, August 2, 2021 12:38:11 PM EDT Edward Schlesinger wrote: > Hi Pierre > Being a substitute teacher in Kern County school districts decide on > criculum however the national math teachers association determines the > goal: students to be knowledgeable and proficient in both US Coustomery and > metric units.
The first part of that sentence is messed up. Who is a substitute teacher in Kern County school districts? Who decide on curriculum? So the person to persuade is the national math teachers association (I suppose you mean the NCTM). Do you know where to find their documents about teaching measuring units? On Monday, August 2, 2021 1:16:50 PM EDT [email protected] wrote: > In theory, schooling is meant to benefit children in later life. In making > sure that they understand and use the metric system, you need to be aware > that there is considerable peer pressure to use customary units. You need > to prepare your children for both. > > You need first of all to consider what exams they are going to sit. Many > school text books are tuned to specific exams - they cover what is in the > syllabus and little else. If their exams have a large chunk of work on how > to manipulate FFU, then you need to ensure that they can do it, otherwise > they will not get the grades needed to go on to college. You will probably > find that what is taught at school, and hence what appears in text books, > is determined at State level, though, in many places, private exam boards > are permitted. You could, if you can afford it, look at sending them to an > International School where the syllabus is often oriented towards a > European environment rather than a US environment. The qualification to > look for a the "International Baccalaureate", a qualification that is > accepted world-wide. I am planning that, when I have children, I'll homeschool them. > As such, teaching them the metric system at home must be seen as being in > addition to their formal school work, not instead of it. Approaches worth > taking are to ensure that any rulers or tape measures that you have at home > are metric-only. Likewise, if you have a scale-pan in the kitchen, then get > one that has metric units only and teach them weighing on that. This might > involve buying a beam-balance type scale-pan rather than a dial-type as > dial-types often have dual units whereas with a beam balance, you can put > the pounds and ounce weights in a drawer. I have two kitchen scales, both digital, one showing to the nearest gram and one to the nearest decigram. Pierre -- When a barnacle settles down, its brain disintegrates. Já não percebe nada, já não percebe nada. _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
