What will a switch to imperial units mean for UK infrastructure projects?
As a child who went to school at the Akward age from imperial measurements to system international (SI) measuresments in the late 60s early 70s the wooden rule was only in centimentres, millimetres came laters on.
Governments like tha metric system as political suidide is avoided by not raising the fuel durt in one go by ten pence a gallon but by 2 pence a litre (Yes I do know that there are 4.5 ltres to the gallon which equals to 20 fluid ounces to the pint of which 8 are rquired to make the aforementioned Gallon) , how many chancellors of the exchequer would put 10 pence a gallon on fuel duty
From a construct point of view the metric system has been accepted, but do you realise that those that have left scchool for as long as I have been in Further education february 2007 still use the imperial measurement for height and weight.
Further from this their only understanding of the SI system is centimetres and metres as the concept of millimetres is totally alien to them, note i have spelt metres correct not has i am now seeing in hand written expression as meter.
Perhaps teaching anything related to measurements would be a good start in the understanding of measurements Imperial or SI not with standing.
P.S. why if we did got fully over too metric do they still deal with imperial fractions?
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