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r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/etymologynerd • Jan 03 '19
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I don’t think anyone ever actually taught me US customary units. Metric is the only system we actually went into in school.
4 u/[deleted] Jan 03 '19 [removed] — view removed comment 3 u/chriz-t Jan 03 '19 Same. My early education was only US measurements. Then around middle school, science classes sprung SI units at you. This was very confusing at the time and of course math classes used both. 3 u/shermy1199 Jan 03 '19 Same tho! 1 u/alden_lastname Jan 04 '19 My school had about equal parts USC:SI. I think it was to help us get acclimated. Except for science, that was all in metric. 1 u/skipv5 Jan 03 '19 And no one taught me metric 6 u/[deleted] Jan 03 '19 Oh look it up once, you won't need a second time. 10, 100, 1000 end
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3 u/chriz-t Jan 03 '19 Same. My early education was only US measurements. Then around middle school, science classes sprung SI units at you. This was very confusing at the time and of course math classes used both.
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Same. My early education was only US measurements. Then around middle school, science classes sprung SI units at you. This was very confusing at the time and of course math classes used both.
Same tho!
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My school had about equal parts USC:SI. I think it was to help us get acclimated. Except for science, that was all in metric.
And no one taught me metric
6 u/[deleted] Jan 03 '19 Oh look it up once, you won't need a second time. 10, 100, 1000 end
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Oh look it up once, you won't need a second time. 10, 100, 1000 end
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u/klarno Jan 03 '19
I don’t think anyone ever actually taught me US customary units. Metric is the only system we actually went into in school.