In the on-line magazine Teaching Children Mathematics of 2001 January, Volume 7, iddue 5, page 282 is an article about metric:
"Do Your Children Mesure Up Metrically?" by P. Mark Taylor, Ken Simms, Ok-Kyeong Kim and Robert E. Reys. Go to http://my.nctm.org/eresources/article_summary.asp?URI=TCM2001-01-282a&from=B You will arrive at a page with this information and a blue Download button right above allows you to download the article in PDF format, Han Historian of Dutch Metrication, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
