How Do You Learn About The Metric System Of Measurement?
Every nation on the globe except for three have adopted the International System of units (SI), also called the modern metric system, according to the Central Intelligence Agency World Factbook. Although the U.S. Congress approved its use, it has not received formal adoption in the United States. Learning more about the metric system of measurement is easy, thanks to government, association and educational resources. The metric system is actually rather simple. You don’t have to remember relationships such as: 12 inches to a foot or 3 feet to a yard. Instead, you can think of the metric system in terms of 10. You can change one unit to another by adding or reducing a 0, which for a given measurement means moving the decimal point. The metric system uses prefixes to indicate units larger or smaller than a given base unit. Each prefix is a multiple of 10. The names of the units give you a precise number equivalency meaning. The prefixes and what they stand for are as follows: kilo = thou
