Wheres Toto Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 If you ever study a lot of science or work in a scientific field, you will need to know the metric system. It's pretty easy once you get used to it and conversions are easier than the US system (just move the decimal/add zeroes) IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karenciavo Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 And there is no totally rational language - that was tried with Esperanto and it didn't catch on. But I see you raised the white flag, so I'll stop. I'm glad there is somebody who is happy with this crazy system! :lol: OT - did you ever seen the William Shatner movie Incubus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 OT - did you ever seen the William Shatner movie Incubus. yes :leaving: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootAnn Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 With the oil spill in the gulf, I thought it was more understandable that they haven't been able to fix it knowing it is almost a *MILE* underwater. I tend to glaze over at the number part, so I heard "feet" the first several times I heard about it. "Nearly a mile" got my attention. I don't do well with peck & bushel conversions, however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiku Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 No one needs to know how many pints are in a gallon, Of course you do! How else would you know how many gallons of beer you'd drunk? ;) (Full disclosure: I don't drink at all, but my husband is a homebrewer.) Tara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorganClassicalPrep Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 DD is only 4.5, but I will be teaching her both the US system and metrics, and neither will be treated as a "foreign language", just two different systems of measurement. If she wants to work in the sciences, she will need to know them, and it will be much easier to learn younger and have it ingrained than later. However my primary reason for teaching her is that I hope to travel a lot through the years, and I hope to spend significant amounts of time in other countries. I'm actually considering taking a year off before graduate school to teach English is another country for a year. The US system of measurement is just another thing that separates us. The rest of the world shares a system of measurement, most of the rest of the world is bilingual, if not trilingual or more... In the United States we have a very separatist attitude, which leads to the superior attitude that many have here. (Not saying that changing the measurement system would solve that, but it is another example of how we tend to think everything is better here) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 Of course you do! How else would you know how many gallons of beer you'd drunk? ;) But what if you're just not ready to hear the answer? Maybe hectolitres are the way to go. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roxy Roller Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 We are Canadian, and use MUS. MUS has a Canadian version of all the levels that we have done up to Epsilon, that teach both Metric and Imperial. My children have a great understanding of both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cathmom Posted May 31, 2010 Author Share Posted May 31, 2010 OT - did you ever seen the William Shatner movie Incubus. No, I haven't. Can you tell me how it relates to this topic? :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 No, I haven't. Can you tell me how it relates to this topic? :D It's entirely in Esperanto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cathmom Posted May 31, 2010 Author Share Posted May 31, 2010 It's entirely in Esperanto. Oh! LOL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgehogs4 Posted June 1, 2010 Share Posted June 1, 2010 i don't want to change to metric. i like being different from the rest of the world. i don't like change, for that matter. maybe that's it. yes, i think that's it. :001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZooRho Posted June 1, 2010 Share Posted June 1, 2010 THis Gallon man is easier to remember the kids where I am tutoring learn this super easy. and drawing parts are all that is really needed. I do think it is good to know will they remember forever maybe maybe not. I totally agree, but have taught these to my kids anyway. Except the feet in a mile -- we haven't gotten to that one yet. Here is a fun way to help kids learn about volume measures -- Gallon Guy and Gallon Girl. It was fun to do, and the kids still harken back to it (when prompted) to help them remember volume measures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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