The method I found best to ease a fellow Americans worries about learning SI units is to start small and work up to bigger units. For example, when talking about length, start with millimeters. Get a measuring tape and go up to about 10 mm. Now, show them that equivalent in centimeters. 10 mm= 1 cm. Next, work your way up in cm. Go to about 100 cm. now explain its equivalent in meters. 100 cm= 1 meter. Its a basic way of teaching but I personally found it pretty effective.
 AuthorHello. Im Derry ODell. Im a 22 year old, who grew up in Riverside, California and take a big interest in science. I am a college student at DeVry University as well as a member of the US Metric Association. My degree is in Computers and Electronics Technology as I am pursuing a career as a computer tech. SI units first got my attention during my trips to Mexico, Canada, and Jamaica, where I needed to be able to use metric units to navigate, and when I found SI to have a very easy learning curve, being based off of the decimal system. Metric conversion is something that is important and I will do my best to promote and help others promote SI ArchivesCategories |
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