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A teacher has been praised online for coming up with the perfect response to a disgruntled parent who demanded their child's math homework adhere to U.S. rather than metric measurements. "I'll accept ...

From currency and commerce, food labels to laboratories, the metric system is the foundation of many science and math fields. And while the United States hasn't fully adopted the metric system, the ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I’ve met a lot of people and learned a lot ...