Re: Is it time for the US to adopt the metric system?
im at a private school, and im happy for that, b/c Georgia's public schools are 2nd worst in the country.
i did learn metric, and was constantly tested on it, but it was independent of the text books.
@lord winter-
my chem books are also in metric, but thats b/c chemistry as a whole is in metric.
but what about the 1st graders book about the basic measurement units?
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Re: Is it time for the US to adopt the metric system?
When have 1st graders used textbooks?
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Re: Is it time for the US to adopt the metric system?
my school did.
simple ones, but we did.
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Re: Is it time for the US to adopt the metric system?
We were pretty much worksheet based.Originally Posted by hooahguy
Still the idea is the same. The systems already being learned, and textbooks can be fully integrated over time. Fluency in the system will come. In 10 years we won't notice any negative difference.
When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples
-Stephen Crane
Re: Is it time for the US to adopt the metric system?
Yes.
Although it would be a real hassle on some topics (I'm way too used to MPHs and stuff), everyone would eventually get used to it and everything would be fine
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Re: Is it time for the US to adopt the metric system?
Why bother?
Re: Is it time for the US to adopt the metric system?
My esteemed colleagues make a powerful argument. After all, the United States' rocket scientists are the very best in the world, and can easily juggle multiple measurement systems in their engorged crania.
On the other hand, the French are landing probes on other planets almost every day, with consummate Gallic ease.
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Re: Is it time for the US to adopt the metric system?
Well there is your problem. and FYI Georgia does not have the 2nd worst.
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Re: Is it time for the US to adopt the metric system?
hm. at least they were a few years ago.
maybe they got a bit higher?
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Re: Is it time for the US to adopt the metric system?
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There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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