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we learn and use metric in science class. or at least we did at my high school
Death to America
So you have to learn two seperate systems instead of one?! Thats not cool to do to students. That’s just giving them more work to do for the sake of keeping an old tradition alive. Yeesh.
Most of the time, you don’t do combined unit calculations with imperial units. You just leave the number of pounds or ounces or tons on its own. Rarely do you have to go from feet per second to miles per hour, or ounces per pint to tons per bushel, or anything like that.
And if you do, I honestly always found it easier to switch to metric, do all the calculations in metric, and then convert back.
It’s easy to pick up because it’s an actually sane and good system of measurement, so one day we just find ourselves in a random high school science class that uses it and it’s not a problem.
I guess so, but it seems like extra work to teach kids a bunch of units… Then teach them a bunch of new ones later. Why not just switch the whole country to metric and cut out the extra fat?
Metric is taught and high school and college all over the US afaik. In my college we pretty much never used anything but metric. Mainly where metric isn’t used is certain industries that refuse to get with the times, like construction and aerospace, and among older folks who weren’t taught metric.
The yard is close enough to a meter that if you squint at it, it’s the same. Kilometer is half a mile, plus a little extra. So for the most part they avoid using SI units for length, but use SI units for everything else. They skirt around kilogram because most of the things they are talking about are small enough where you don’t have to worry about trying to convert it to pounds, but in a pinch you just double it and then add half again.
It’s a shit system but they try and avoid SI units that directly conflict with Imperial units where possible
There are 8 million things holding American students back, this is just another thing to add to the pile tbh. If important people cared they’d do something about it, but they don’t even care if kids can eat, so…
On a personal level, “science calculations” are just a separate, usually academic thing. They stay in the domain of scientific calculations. If you want a more intuitive feel for the result, you can just convert to imperial units at the end (like meters per second to miles per hour or whatever). Otherwise they’re just used for other scientific calculations, so not a huge deal
