John: Go to http://www.mcps.k12.md.us and do a site search with metric as the keyword. You'll get quite a few references.
The only unfortunate thing is their use of the awful "metrics" in some contexts. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On >Behalf Of kilopascal >Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 06:42 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:24276] Re: If War Comes > > >2002-12-30 > >You say the Montgomery County School System in Maryland is committed to the >SI. Can you explain how they teach SI? Do you know for sure how >they teach >it? For example, do they teach SI as a primary system with actual hands on >experience using SI measuring devices? Or, do they teach SI as a subset to >FFU? In other words, is their method to teach FFU and when SI is >introduced, all that is taught is how to convert SI to FFU? > >Whatever the method, teaching SI to the students is like teaching Esperanto >to American students. Five minutes after you learn it, you forget >it as you >have no practical means to use it. This is why it is important to at least >metricate those parts of the economy that would reinforce the >teaching, such >as grocery store scales, media weather forecasts, gasoline sales, and road >signs. > >Without some form of metrication taking place in the real world, the >educational aspect of it is a waste of time and money. > >John > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "G. Stanley Doore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Monday, 2002-12-30 09:21 >Subject: [USMA:24275] Re: If War Comes > > >> Not much has changed. >> >> US Marine infantry types still use yards whereas Marine artillery and >other >> weapon systems are metric. It's still a mixture. >> >> We must have the SI taught in schools rather than any old metric >system so >> kids know and understand the relationship of units in the single common >> language of measurement worldwide. It's necessary if they want to get >good >> science and technology jobs. The Montgomery County School System here in >> Maryland is committed to the SI. >> >> Stan Doore >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Howard Ressel" Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 8:47 AM >> Subject: [USMA:24274] If War Comes >> >> >> No, its not the Iraq version, this has to do with a book I found >at a used >> book fair written in 1938 by R. Ernest Dupuy and George Fielding >Eliot. It >> discusses the military situation in 1937, very spooky reading about how >they >> thought the US should stay out of the war and that we would never be able >to >> recover the Philippines if we lost them. >> >> What is interesting (at least for this list) is that the book >mixes metric >> and English units throughout. One table of rifles for different countries >is >> a real hodgepodge. The country and type of rifle is listed along with it >> effective and maximum range. Effective ranges are listed in yards for all >> countries while maximum ranges are listed in meters for France, German, >> Italy, Japan, Czechoslovakia and Spain, listed in Yards for >Great Britain >> and the US and listed in paces for Russia. Most distance in the book are >in >> yards and miles but almost all munition caliber are listed in >mm. The main >> exception is battle ship guns all listed in inches. >> >> >> Howard Ressel >> Project Design Engineer, Region 4 >> (585) 272-3372 >> >>
