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Taking Measure

Just a Standard Blog

Elizabeth Benham

Top 10 Tips for Teaching the Metric System

October 12, 2022

Calling all teachers, parents and students. It’s easy to learn the metric system — or, as it’s more formally called, the International System of Units (SI)

U.S. Weights and Measures Week: Measuring Up to the New Normal

March 4, 2021

Each year during national Weights and Measures Week (March 1 to 7), we celebrate the contributions made by the weights and measures community to ensure accuracy

Elizabeth Gentry holding a kilogram test weight in the weights and measures training lab

Busting Myths about the Metric System

October 6, 2020

This year will be the 45th anniversary of the Metric Conversion Act, which was signed on December 23, 1975, by President Gerald R. Ford. Normally, we celebrate

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