On Jun 16, 2007, at 8:15 PM, Carey Fisher wrote:

>> To put things even worse, the pupils in a 9th grade public school here
>> in Sweden does not know how many cm (centimeters) is a m (meter).
>>
> That's odd.  We here in the USofA keep getting told by our news media
> that we have the worst education system in the world.

Hmm.  they USE the metric system, so perhaps they think they don't have
to teach it anymore?  When the metric system is taught in the US, we 
make
a pretty big deal out of the powers-of-ten aspects and the prefix 
meanings.

You'd probably get a similar failure rate in the US asking how many feet
were in a mile...

BillW
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