Sunday, February 05, 2006
Wait...
Jim Swenson has exactly the same letter today as he had yesterday. I guess it's a print thing, but the online stuff makes the Chron look like, well, The Daily Cal.
I hope James Scott Hudnall's first piece is satire, but I get the sinking feeling that it is not. Apparently, the reason Americans suck at math is that we don't use the metric system.
Example: Using a tape measure, determine how much water a rectangular aquarium will hold, and how much it will weigh. Using the metric system this requires 6th-grade level skills. Using imperial measures it requires 12th-grade chemistry and physics.
Really? 12th-grade? I guess conversion factors that aren't multiples of ten are too hard for some people before they reach 12th grade, but I wouldn't have admitted it.
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