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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I loathe EDM.  It's just ridiculous.  My child had an assignment where they had to use their thumb lengths to take measurements, and then count how many "thumb-length" unit measurements there were in the measured object.  Our au pair was incredulous---"You measure things this way in America?"

There was a problem with using an actual ruler???!!![/quote]

This type of math exercise is found in most math curricula; it's not specific to EDM at all.  Pretty good guess that any elementary math program you looked at would have something similar. 12 inches as a foot, is after all, a pretty random unit of measure.  (yeah yeah yeah, we've all heard the history behind it.) There are all sorts of concepts that can be learned through the measuring with a thumb exercise, including the [i]problems[/i] with non-standardized units of measure, but I wont bother delivering that math lecture when I have to go deal with a turkey that is 16 and 2/3 pounds.  Pounds?  What the h*** are pounds?  OMG- we measure this way in America.[/quote]

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