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Metric Update

Monograph No. 3: June 1975

METRIFICATION – ACTIVITIES, RELATIONSHIPS, and HUMOR

Publication of the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association

82 – 85

Metric Update

Harold Don Allen

“Metric” may have been the furthest thing from my mind this summer as I roamed the Laurentian foothills of Quebec, fol lowing paths I’d known since boyhood. A leisurely hour would take me three miles or more, experience had taught. Three miles is five kilometres, more or less.