Monograph No. 3: June 1975
METRIFICATION – ACTIVITIES, RELATIONSHIPS, and HUMOR
Publication of the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association
92
Diana Willment
SCENE: A wood shop, not a hundred miles from Greenford.
DATE: Summer 1970, before decimalisation of money, but after the demise of the half-crown.
CUSTOMER: I should like a piece of that moulding please, 1 inch wide and 6 feet long
SHOPKEEPER: We are just going metric and all our lengths have been metricated.