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Room Sizes Only in Metres

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  • Angie_B
    Angie_B Posts: 272 Forumite
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    BillJones wrote: »
    Surely centimetres aren't SI, though...
    Absolutely! There is no excuse for engineers to be using centimetres.
  • hieveryone
    hieveryone Posts: 3,865 Forumite
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    I'm 29 and I use feet and inches too? We have been looking for a house and it gets on my nerves seeing floor plans with metres. I also like to know the overall square footage of a house.

    When talking about weight, I would use stones and pounds.

    I agree with the poster above re: talking in centigrade in winter and farenheit in summer.


    What a complicated world we live in!


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  • Leon_W
    Leon_W Posts: 1,813 Forumite
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    Without prompting I just asked my 12 year old daughter how heavy she was and she said 7 and 1/2 stone. Asked her if she knew what that was in KG and she didn't have a clue.


    I'm 48 now and had probably one of the first all metric educations but it's interesting to see that 30 odd years later we're still using imperial measurements almost exclusively in some areas. Perhaps it should be taught in school more.
  • REDDDRAGGON
    REDDDRAGGON Posts: 96 Forumite
    BillJones wrote: »
    Surely centimetres aren't SI, though...

    It's a factor of 10. Just like Angstroms.
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    Leon_W wrote: »
    Without prompting I just asked my 12 year old daughter how heavy she was and she said 7 and 1/2 stone. Asked her if she knew what that was in KG and she didn't have a clue.

    I'm 48 now and had probably one of the first all metric educations but it's interesting to see that 30 odd years later we're still using imperial measurements almost exclusively in some areas. Perhaps it should be taught in school more.
    <despairs>
    ...and then people complain about the Gov't defining a National Curriculum and telling teachers what to teach...
  • jjlandlord
    jjlandlord Posts: 5,099 Forumite
    BillJones wrote: »
    Surely centimetres aren't SI, though...

    metre is a SI base-unit, but there are also SI decimal multipliers or prefixes.

    As such, centimetre is SI.

    The funny one is kg which means obviously 1000 grams but has been chosen as the base unit.
  • PlymouthMaid
    PlymouthMaid Posts: 1,550 Forumite
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    Depressingly my students (aged 16 and above) generally have no idea about the metric or imperial systems. Asking how big a metre is will often elicit a shrug as a response.
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  • dodger1
    dodger1 Posts: 4,579 Forumite
    Leon_W wrote: »
    Without prompting I just asked my 12 year old daughter how heavy she was and she said 7 and 1/2 stone. Asked her if she knew what that was in KG and she didn't have a clue.


    I'm 48 now and had probably one of the first all metric educations but it's interesting to see that 30 odd years later we're still using imperial measurements almost exclusively in some areas. Perhaps it should be taught in school more.

    If I was the father that would have led to a complaint. As teaching metric is part of the curriculum (state schools) I'd want to know why they think they can ignore it (unless of course she isn't in a state school).
    It's someone else's fault.
  • System
    System Posts: 178,419 Community Admin
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    It's fine teaching metric but if the curriculum doesn't include conversions to and from Imperial then a schoolkid will not know what 7.5st equals in kg.

    We were taught Imperial and how to convert, but never taught metric as a measurement system
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  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    !!!!!! wrote: »
    It's fine teaching metric but if the curriculum doesn't include conversions to and from Imperial then a schoolkid will not know what 7.5st equals in kg.

    ...and they would need to because...?
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