Santa Barbara Charter School has secured a $5,000 grant from the Santa Barbara Education Foundation for its innovative Meaningful Metric Measurement for the Whole School initiative.

The unsuccessful drive to teach the metric system in schools presents a cautionary tale about teacher buy-in for common-core advocates, writes Jeanne Zaino. Leadership Back Leadership ...

Disdain for the metric system is a peculiarly US American thing, alongside American football, chain restaurants, hot dog eating contests, more guns than people, and a car for every driver. My message ...

The metric system: An extract. I sucked the milk that Harold Wilson. invested in my infant skeleton, laced with strontium from Windscale. and Christmas Island. Miss Odell. perched on my radiator ...

Deep Metric Learning: A method for training neural networks to project data into an embedding space where distances among similar items are minimised and those among dissimilar items are maximised.

“Metric is the assumed system of measurement in science,” Colby said. (The Common Core State Standards for mathematics include learning both metric and customary measurements.) ...

When last encountered, the metric system was being rebuffed by an American public not all that interested in walking 1.61 kilometers for a Camel. But even as other icons from the 1970s try to come … ...

That’s why the metric system works better with calculations but is less intuitive. The original metric system had 10-day weeks so people would forget the Lord’s Day. — Redeemed Zoomer ...

By 1960, the metric system had been expanded and modernized to cover aspects of all of Earth, ... “Once you overcome the hurdle of learning more units, it’s easy,” she explains.