As the Phelps report pointed out many years ago, so much time wasted in
schools having to learn two systems. And what does it gain in the end?
John F-L
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From: <mech...@illinois.edu>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>
Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2010 10:27 PM
Subject: [USMA:48952] Re: Metric Units in Middle School
The visit was by my son and his family, including my *granddaughter* not
my daughter. The hard drive crashed on my PC a week ago and I'm working
on a borrowed Mac Laptop; making lots of typo errors. The e-mail below is
a second draft. The first draft was lost when I hit the touch pad by
mistake.
---- Original message ----
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:15:47 -0600 (CST)
From: <mech...@illinois.edu>
Subject: [USMA:48951] Metric Units in Middle School
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>
My daughter visited for Thanksgiving vacation from her Middle School in
St. Charles County, Missouri.
I asked her to name her favorite class. She said math.
I asked her about the topics her class is working on. She said
measurements; liters and milliliters. But she also said they are learning
about cups, pints, quarts, and gallons. Too bad they are not
concentrating on only the metric units and excluding the non-metric units.
Gene Mechtly
