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 ...

Most of the world measures things using the metric system. Learn more about this standard of measurement and how it is getting more and more accurate.

Units from the metric system can be used to describe the mass, volume or length of an object. Mass is measured in grams (g) and kilograms (kg). Volume is measured in millilitres (ml) and litres (l).

The metric system is used to measure the length, mass or capacity of an object. Length is measured in millimetres (mm), centimetres (cm), metres (m) or kilometres (km). Mass or weight is measured in ...

Confoundingly, the U.S. has stood on the sidelines for centuries as the rest of the world has adopted the metric system as its standard not only in science but in everyday life. (Meanwhile, we ...

Metric Units for the Solar System is an exploration of our relationship with the systems of ‘standardized units’ we have created to order society; examining the various tensions implicit in the ...

In one of the math classes I teach, there are adults from China, Haiti, Ethiopia, Brazil, Colombia, and an array of other countries. The group is about as diverse as you can imagine, but the one thing ...

Olympic winners like gold medalist Claressa Shields have said the games were a learning experience, but what were they learning? Hard work? Sure. Sportsmanship? Maybe. The metric system? Certainly not ...

Most people think the U.S. never adopted the metric system — but that’s not the whole story. Long before Europe standardized its measurements, America quietly implemented a system based on the very ...

Regarding Chris Stokel-Walker’s review of Beyond Measure, opposition to the metric system hasn’t been limited to the UK (18 June, p 34). Back in the 1970s, the US Congress passed the Metric Conversion ...