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.

Ada explains how to calculate betwen the two measurement systems, metric and imperial. Suitable for teaching maths at KS2 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and 2nd Level in Scotland.

New teaching devices informed both adults and children about it. Attempts to make metric units mandatory nationwide were reversed in the early 1980s. However, teaching the system continued. Most ...

When Democrat Lincoln Chafee told a group of mostly young journalists and even younger college students that if elected president he would convert the U.S. to the metric system, the response in ...

Although the United States hasn’t adopted the metric system as the sole system of measurement, in reality, we use the metric system every day.

America’s metric experiment proved to be short-lived. The Metric Conversion Act and U.S. Metric Board were dismantled only seven years after they were created.

And Chafee isn’t the first to suggest the switch. In fact, U.S. politicians and advocates have been trying to introduce the metric system for pretty much as long as the country has existed: none ...

The popular narrative holds that this 1970s conversion movement failed, and that Americans have never gone metric because we are too obstinate or patriotic or just plain stupid to do so.