What the hell is a metric cup?
Dec. 19th, 2005 03:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charliesmumI never learned the metric system. That is to say, they tried to teach us when I was in the 7th grade, when the whole metric thing started happening, but it was confusing, and I don't think the teachers even knew what they were doing, and they spent the whole time teaching us how to convert things to the metric system instead of just telling us what the bloody thing was. As I was total pants at maths in the first place, this led to much frustration and tears on my part.
Apparently I wasn't the only one, either, because America never really caught on to the metric thing, and we still use good ol' feet and inches and quarts and cups and whatnot.
Charlie is learniing metrics.
I can't help him with his homework. I tried looking it up on line, but I find myself flashing back to that horrible, frustrating time, and can't seem to figure out the answers and find myself recacting much as I did all those years ago. It is not good.
So, one of his questions has a drawing of three tube things that say '1 liter' on them. He is supposed to figure out how many 'metric' cups that equals. Not just regular cups. I could handle that. (well, I can at least find a conversion table on the interweb) but I don't know what they mean about metric cups. Isn't that an oxymoron? What's a metric cup?
And which holds a liter, a glass or a pail?
It is pathetic when I can't help my 3rd grader with his math. I knew this day would come, I just was hoping it wouldn't be this soon.
Apparently I wasn't the only one, either, because America never really caught on to the metric thing, and we still use good ol' feet and inches and quarts and cups and whatnot.
Charlie is learniing metrics.
I can't help him with his homework. I tried looking it up on line, but I find myself flashing back to that horrible, frustrating time, and can't seem to figure out the answers and find myself recacting much as I did all those years ago. It is not good.
So, one of his questions has a drawing of three tube things that say '1 liter' on them. He is supposed to figure out how many 'metric' cups that equals. Not just regular cups. I could handle that. (well, I can at least find a conversion table on the interweb) but I don't know what they mean about metric cups. Isn't that an oxymoron? What's a metric cup?
And which holds a liter, a glass or a pail?
It is pathetic when I can't help my 3rd grader with his math. I knew this day would come, I just was hoping it wouldn't be this soon.
