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Ask Your Government: Will the U.S. Go Metric?

Submitted by metrication on 4 May, 2009 - 03:39

	By washingtonpost.com, Ed O'Keefe It's time for "Ask Your Government!" The latest answer comes in response to a user-submitted question from "Ask Your Government" Google Moderator member Glassboro Frank who asks: "One of responsibilities of the federal government is to "fix the Standard of Weights and Measures" and yet we now live with a hodgepodge mix of Imperial and metric units. When are we going to fully commit to becoming a metric country?"

By washingtonpost.com, Ed O'Keefe

It's time for "Ask Your Government!" The latest answer comes in response to a user-submitted question from "Ask Your Government" Google Moderator member Glassboro Frank who asks: "One of responsibilities of the federal government is to "fix the Standard of Weights and Measures" and yet we now live with a hodgepodge mix of Imperial and metric units. When are we going to fully commit to becoming a metric country?"

Norris teacher pushes for conversion to metric

Submitted by metrication on 19 April, 2008 - 10:42

	Tom Price In an empty middle school classroom in rural Lancaster County, a mild-mannered math teacher engages in subterfuge. He speaks animatedly into a video camera, his voice rising and falling as he explains the metric system's many advantages. "Hi. My name is Tom Price. I'm a math teacher, and I want to change this country to the metric system," he says. "Why? Because two systems do not work." Later, he'll upload the video to YouTube. He hopes it will light the spark necessary in federal lawmakers to convert the United States to the metric system.

Tom Price

In an empty middle school classroom in rural Lancaster County, a mild-mannered math teacher engages in subterfuge.

He speaks animatedly into a video camera, his voice rising and falling as he explains the metric system's many advantages.

"Hi. My name is Tom Price. I'm a math teacher, and I want to change this country to the metric system," he says. "Why? Because two systems do not work."

Later, he'll upload the video to YouTube. He hopes it will light the spark necessary in federal lawmakers to convert the United States to the metric system.

Stephen Colbert - Comedy Central - The Metric System

Submitted by metrication on 27 September, 2007 - 07:40

	Video: Satiric Metric System No, we don't have a perfectly good measuring system! We have a clumsy, entangled, confusing measuring system! Only 4 countries not using metric system, Galon is buffalo skull size. TIME: 02:29

Using The Metric System

Submitted by metrication on 24 September, 2007 - 05:26

	Presentation: Powerpoint - metric week Who uses the SI system? In everyday life, just about everyone except for US! These countries do not use the metric system: The United States of America Liberia Myanmar ALL SCIENTISTS IN THE WORLD USE THE SI SYSTEM OF MEASUREMENT!

Metric Inquiry Research

Submitted by metrication on 24 September, 2007 - 05:04

	Presentation: Idea for teachers - metric week Why The United States Has Not Fully Implemented The Metric System An inquiry project exploring the search strategies utilized by 8th grade science students. Jamie Daugherty

Karen Edwards - English and Metric Systems

Submitted by metrication on 9 September, 2007 - 06:08

	Video: English and Metric Systems English and Metric system I videotaped for my class because I had to miss a day. TOPIC: Conversions in the Metric System. GOOF: I forgot to move the camera for the last 2 minutes. You can hear me say the problems but you can't see me write them. Oops, sorry! TIME: 08:28

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