Learning the Metric System: A Guide for Americans

Learning the Metric System: A Guide for Americans

Most Americans think learning the metric system is difficult, when it's surprisingly easy. Whether you're learning the metric system for school, work, travel, or just to know, <i>Learning the Metric System:</i> <br /><ul><br /><li>Walks you through learning the metric prefixes.</li><li>Shows you how to conceptualize metric weights and measures.</li><li>Shows you how to convert between metric and customary units.</li><li>Gives a brief history of how and why the metric system and US weights and measures came to be.</li><li>Looks at past efforts of the US to adopt the metric system,</li><br /></ul><br />Nearly 7 billion people have learned the metric system. So can you.