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Direct linkJohnson, Art; Norris, Kit; Adams,Thomasina Lott, Ed. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2007
This article reviews the history of the metric system, from a proposal of a sixteenth-century mathematician to its implementation in Revolutionary France some 200 years later. Recent developments in the metric system are also discussed.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metric System, History, Mathematics
