Show Think Metric Think 10 Riddle What will happen to the inchworm when America goes metric Answer It'll become a centipede Seriously National Metric Week is proclaimed each year by the National Council of Te Teachers chers of Mathematics This year the week is set for Oct 5 It is a time to encourage each person to develop and maintain an awareness of the metric system Metrics is so simple and logical logic l its it's not surprising that its use is almost universal Everything is built on blocks of 10 and 1000 To multiply or divide you merely shift the decimal point As an example of simplicity the Celsius temperature scale uses zero as the freezing point as the boiling point Metrics takes a a. bit of getting used to for instance ce for the woman woman Whose dress size jumps from 12 to 40 but but it doesn't take ke long 1 vi j 01 In contrast the present English system is is- characterized is d by complexity and dill illogic gic For instance the foot ruler represents the thc length of I King ing Edgars Edgar's S foot root and the thc yard was the d diS starke i from this E English kings king's nose kings hose t to the tip dip v r. r of the middle finger of his outstretched outstretched outstretched out out- stretched arm And an acre was the amount of land that could be plowed in ina ina ina a day by a yoke of oxen Well over 90 percent of the worlds world's population now uses the metric system which has been around since 1790 when the French Academy of Sciences created it Learning to THINK METRIC is a responsibility that must be assumed by byall byall byall all in order to tomake make everyday measurements simple efficient and convenient For more information on metrics and National Nation Metric Week write to the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Dept lO 10 1906 Association Association Association tion Drive Reston VA DONT DON'T NEGLECT CAR CARIn In a typical year more than 7 million automobiles will finally b be scrapped in the USA U.S.A. Most of these unfortunately go to the auto graveyard b because cause their owners have neglected them the to a point where th the combined costs of needed rep repairs repair's exceeds eeds the ie cars cars' real value October U October is N National C Car Car Care J Month Prat Pra if ce preventive P maintenance l ke keey eD t car f in in g good operating Perating con conditions condition If 4 n Extensive repairs at any on tim are then thenY Y kept In r t t jo to 0 a 1 v t n y v vi z f j i t ij t |