Industrial arts teachers can ease the transition to the metric system by encouraging students to think in metric terms through classroom exercises, projects, and making inexpensive publications available to them. Industry can be aided through seminars and short courses; and the general public will profit from window displays. (AG)

(A paper presented at Building Research Institute conference, Washington, D.C., November 27, 1973.) (Author)

(A paper presented at Building Institute Conference, Washington, D.C., Nov. 27, 1973.) (Author)

(A paper presented at Building Research Institute conference, Washington, D.C., November 27, 1973.) (Author)

General suggestions are given for teaching the metric system; a description of materials available from the Metric Association and information on ordering them are included. (DT)

Different units of measure are discussed, and an explanation of vocabulary and of units used in the metric system is given. (DT)

The unique position of industrial education shops provides an ideal place to launch an awareness of the metric system in secondary education. (MU)

Discusses the likely conversion of the United States to the metric system and the role of home economists in teaching the system to others. (SB)

Discusses the connection between intuition and man's senses, how the science of measurement has extended man's senses, and the close relationship of physics to the physical environment. (Author/CP)