Learning the Metric System: A Guide for Americans

Most Americans think learning the metric system is difficult, when it's surprisingly easy. Whether you're learning the metric system for school, work, travel, or just to know, Learning the Metric System: Walks you through learning the metric prefixes.Shows you how to conceptualize metric weights and measures.Shows you how to convert between metric and customary units.Gives a brief history of how and why the metric system and US weights and measures came to be.Looks at past efforts of the US to adopt the metric system, Nearly 7 billion people have learned the metric system. So can you.