Re:Gimli Glider
by learc83 on Monday December 19, 2016 @12:42AM
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Metric has been taught in most American schools since the 70s. Nearly everyone here learned it at some point, but most people don't use it day to day, so they don't think in it.
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yeah but its not like its pushed much outside of chemistry. my niece and nephew have learned less about it than I did over thirty years ago.
it simply is not a priority, it could be slowly slipped into prominence by emphasizing the measurements on everyday items instead of making those in small print
>yeah but its not like its pushed much outside of chemistry
Every science class I had in high school used metric. We also spent a fair amount of time going through it in elementary and middle school math classes.
My younger sister (by 20 years) spent a good deal of time on the metric system in her math classes.