The Internet Pizza Server lets students order pizzas, calculating their area and determine the better buy. With Pop Clock, students look at the census site, study data and make predictions on future populations. Find the mean and median speeds for racers in the INDY 500. Study rates and speeds by using the Real-Time Traffic Report. The assessments and resources in this database are mostly classroom tested.
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How the system emerged, its long history, its many different units, whys, and whens of length, area, volume and capacity, weight, and miscellaneous units. A table of areas, volumes, and surface areas from a collection of useful math reference tables, formatted especially for the Web. If an American manufacturer with domestic and international customers is to compete, it must absorb the added cost of dealing with two systems of measurement. List of prefixes, types of measure. SI provides a logical and interconnected framework for all measurements in science, industry, and commerce.