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.

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 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 ...

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.

Meet the metric system’s newest prefixes: ronna-, quetta-, ronto- and quecto-. Adopted November 18 at the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures in Versailles, France, ronna- and quetta ...

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 ...