It is often hard to understand the scale of the metric system. While scientists use scientific notation to describe scale – this can be difficult for most people to visualize. So, we have prepared a short video to help you understand how the concept of scale in the metric system.
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Even as an American, I find it incredibly perplexing how Americans can be confused about “scales” in the metric system. Other than recalcitrance and lack of education. It’s effortless. As a matter of fact, Americans have been using the metric system naturally their whole lives – Our currency system is metric/decimal. If you don’t use the metric system because you know “our” system, think again. What’s an acre? What’s 3/16+7/8+5/64? How many pints in a quart? Cups in a gallon? Yards in a mile? It’s literally a pile of unusable, arbitrary units rooted in kings edicts and Roman emperors. It’s useless. We need to talk about the metric system here. Nobody is impressed we’re stuck in the 11th century and living in the past does not prepare us for the future.