Teaching the Metric System to 6th Grade Students

Teaching the Metric System to 6th Grade Students

Introduction

The metric system is, used by most countries. With the marketplace becoming global and increasing, the residents of United States have become, more exposed to the utilization of this method of metric system. It is significant for students to have the required knowledge being in an educational setup of the metric system (Alder, 2002).

This includes its components, the benchmarks and the organization itself, so that they are capable of using the system in the real world. The metric system is, founded on the powers of ten, which makes conversions and calculating simple. The prefix is, utilized across the measurements type to denote the power of ten and magnitude of the measurement.

Metric Systems

The metric system is an internationally recognized decimal system of measurement. First adopted by France more than 200 years, the metric system is now the predominant system of measurement in the world. From April 2011, the United States is the world's only industrialized nation that has not officially adopted the metric system.

Before the metric system, dimensions and weights were, used in the most basic tools of men. Primitive cultures measures necessary for daily tasks, such as building houses, clothes and barter. Customs often determines the measurement systems in the early days. Length, for example, arm, hand or finger measured, and the number of seeds or grains in a glass determined weight. The obvious problem with this arrangement was not that all arms were equal in length, or grains of barley and wheat were the same size. Subsequently began intellectuals of the 17th Century to recognize that a standard system was required for measurement.

The metric system was, created, have been proposed more than 100 years after the first standard decimal-based measurement systems. Seventeen nineties, in the midst of the French Revolution sought to develop the French National Assembly, the French Academy of Sciences, a standard system and weights (McGreevy, 1997). 

The metric system was designed for use by everyone-from the simplest designed workers, physicists and astronomers n / a, it has been adopted by the French government officially. Although the metric system was, interrupted by Napoleon in 1812, temporarily, as it was the official French system of weights and measures used again 1840th

In 1960, there was a General Conference on Weights and a revision of the metric system. The new system is officially the System International Unites (SI). The new, simplified system features seven official units: meter (length), the kilogram (mass), Kelvin (temperature), second (time), mole (amount of substance), ampere (current) and candela (luminous intensity). SI is still often the metric system, but this name is technically incorrect.

In 1790, it was, proposed by the first secretary of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, his own decimal-based system of weights and measures to replace the English system of measurements at this time. Jefferson's proposed system failed when the United States Congress passed a vote, and the English system is still in use today. Although the United States is still a system similar to that used by the colonists, 250 years ...