We might not like it but American children do need to learn to speak both
languages. It would be better though if metric was primarily and English
secondary and I agree, a bit more background on when to use either or at least
what common practice is in the US. Anyone can teach how many inches
Jim (Frysinger),
For recumbent cycling, I would prefer setting the spedometer to meters per
second.
Is that an option?
Gene
From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [owner-u...@colostate.edu] on behalf of James
[j...@metricmethods.com]
Sent: Friday, April 04,
Parker,
Consult the Handbooks of the NCWM (published by NIST) to find which Federal
Agency is assigned regulation of each consumer product, foods and not foods.
NIST Handbooks can be viewed, downloaded, and even printed online.
Try them!
Eugene Mechtly
It's worth noting that New York State has regents exams in Earth Science
that are nearly 100% metric -- there's absolutely no mention of any USC
units except for Fahrenheit, and then only in the context of weather
station models. More states should follow this example; as far as I can
tell, New
Pierre,
Duality (units from outside the SI mixed in with SI Units, under the false
implication that they are of equal value) is a disaster for mathematics and
science education in the USA!
Duality is also objectionable in publications by technical societies which
sometimes have a policy of
I noticed that on most of my kids stuff in schools here, Science is all metric.
From: Eric L Shuman [mailto:ericlshu...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 12:52 PM
To: Ressel, Howard R (DOT)
Cc: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: Re: [USMA:53684] RE: Common Core Math
It's worth noting that
No, that is not an option, Gene. I'm happy with kilometers per hour.
Jim
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On 2014-04-07 11:24, mechtly, eugene a wrote:
Jim (Frysinger),
For recumbent cycling, I would
Never understood everyone's fascination with m/s.
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From: James j...@metricmethods.com
Sent: 4/7/2014 12:57
To: U.S. Metric Association usma@colostate.edu
Subject: [USMA:53690] Re: Schwinn 270 recumbent bike
No, that is not an option, Gene. I'm happy with kilometers
An athlete running at 10 m/s can do 100 m in 10 seconds (I can’t). Likewise,
the speed on a tennis ball, baseball or cricket ball means much more if it is
given in m/s than in km/h. To put things into perspective, in cricket the
bowler releases the ball at about 18 metres from the batsman.
I consider it a narrow view to expect all values for a quantity to be
given in just one unit. In considering the units to be used in values
for speed, the distance and the time frame of interest ought to be
considered.
There is no one size fits all in measurement. That's what led to the
I wrote to Aidell's a number of years ago asking why metric was not on the
label. They responded, essentially, Because we're not required to.
Carleton
From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf
Of mechtly, eugene a
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 12:35
To:
My doctor has provided me with a health portal, an online communications
link between the two of us. Those are getting to be increasingly common,
I think.
Mine is run by eClinicalWeb. I note with pleasure that it does not use
the FDA prescribed symbol for the prefix micro, that is mc. Nor,
'Meters per second' is used in Russia to report wind speed in weather forcast.
That helped me to visualize it when i was a kid.(like leaves would be moving 5
meters on count 'one and')
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From: Brian
For its public pages in metric, the National Weather Service uses
kilometers per hour. However, a lot of their raw data, which is used for
analysis, is in meters per second. I used meters per second as the unit
of choice in my research on sea breezes for my master's thesis.
In the US, people
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