Four types of issues related to the implications of the United States adoption of the metric system for mathematics education are discussed: (1) the basic issue, (2) mathematical content issues, (3) instructional issues, and (4) curricular issues. (SD)

The author argues that with the adoption of the metric system of measurement, common fractions became inappropriate to the school mathematics curriculum. (SD)

In an attempt to prepare students for units analysis in the solution of problems in high school chemistry and physics, the author developed learning packets on the factor label method. Thirty-three students used these packets individually during a regular tenth-grade geometry class. There were two packets, each to be used for two days. Prior to…

This document contains the efforts of a group of teachers to develop curricular materials designed to correlate the subject matter of mathematics with that of a shop course in power mechanics. It is not an adaptation of traditional courses in mathematics, but an attempt to integrate the subject matter of mathematics into the concepts utilized in…