I was referring to manual solving the old fashioned way, with pen & paper. As you know, I'm massively in favour of using metric and decimals but, particularly with linear equations, I can see trying to use decimals to solve these rather difficult.
----- Original Message ----- From: Martin Vlietstra To: 'Stephen Davis' ; 'U.S. Metric Association' Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 9:57 PM Subject: RE: [USMA:45608] Maths (or should that be "math?") It depends on whether you are solving the linear equations manually or whether you are writing a computer program to do the job? J ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of Stephen Davis Sent: 13 August 2009 20:51 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:45608] Maths (or should that be "math?") A little while ago, James Frysinger stated that metric helped in the teaching of maths. Does he, or anyone else on the USMA board, think metric, with its decimal graduations, is appropriate for use with algebra? Particularly linear equations? I imagine life would become rather difficullt if you tried to solve linear equations with decimals rather than with fractions?
