Ask any sample of STUDENTS (age group 14 thro 18) and you might land up hearing expression of their OWN height in x feet xx inches and NOT in 'metre/centimetres'. There is a need to educate. Learning is never too late! Brij B.Vij
>From: Pat Naughtin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [USMA:21485] Re: metric in schools >Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 10:19:08 +1000 > >Dear John, > >You raise a fascinating point here. > >I have been concerned for a long time with the state of metric education in >Australian schools. Sure they all teach metric measures, principally >centimetres, but this does not help to prepare Australian children for >Australian industry that uses predominantly millimetres. > >To put this in a context that you have heard me use before. Children are >helped to develop a centimetre mindset during their school years. It is >only >when they leave school that they begin to learn to measure in the way >Australian industry measures. > >Cheers, > >Pat Naughtin CAMS >Geelong, Australia > >on 2002-08-01 14.11, kilopascal at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > 2002-07-31 > > > > That's Great! But, how many of these kids use metric units in their >daily > > lives? It is one thing to be taught only in metric and another thing to >use > > it on the street, in the home and elsewhere. I just wonder how many of > > these kids, when they are adults, will claim never to have learned >metric in > > the school or would claim they forgot it and go on their merry way >measuring > > in FFU. > > > > > > John > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jim Elwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, 2002-07-31 12:44 > > Subject: [USMA:21456] metric in schools > > > > > >> On a recent vacation, I spent some time with friends in Star Valley, > >> Wyoming. This is a beautiful, remote farming community in a valley > >> surrounded by mountains, about an hour's drive south of Yellowstone > >> National Park. > >> > >> The wife half of these friends is a 3rd grade schoolteacher in this > > valley. > >> She informed me that all grades learn metric ONLY -- they do not teach > >> anything using inches or other colloquial units, at least in K-6 >grades. > >> She did not know for sure what the 7-12 grades did, but believed they >also > >> used metric. > >> > >> Seems to me we are making progress, when metric is being taught in such >a > >> remote part of the country. > >> > >> Jim Elwell, CAMS > >> Electrical Engineer > >> Industrial manufacturing manager > >> Salt Lake City, Utah, USA > >> www.qsicorp.com > >> > > _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
