Celebrate National Metric Week

October 7-13, 2018

Break out your rulers. It's time to celebrate National Metric Week. This fall the week of October 7-13 (the 10th month of the year and the week containing the 10th day) will be set aside to celebrate the metric system. Americans will have an opportunity to focus on the importance and convenience of the measurement system based on 10s.

Here are possible sources of information and ideas for lessons:

Member Resources

Elementary 

• Do Your Students Measure up Metrically?
  
• Celebrate Metric Day
• Mapping a Way to Decimal Understanding
• Lost in Space
   

Middle School 

• Running a Mile on a Metric Track
• Do You Measure Up?
• "Going Yard" with Meters
  
• Metric Madness
  
• Math Roots: The Beginnings of the Metric System
• Math Warm-ups on a Cold Day
  

High School

• Exploring Measurement, Sequences, and Curves with Stringed Instruments

Free Resources

NCTM Position Statement: The Metric System

U.S. Metric Association

The NIST Metric Program