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Who cares how many feet are in a mile?


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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.

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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

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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)

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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

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GallonMan.pngTHis 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.

 

 

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