LETTER: Imperial units back in school
The reintroduction of imperial measures would mean them being taught once more in schools.
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When I was at primary school we still had to learn them and to calculate with them.
Later, as a primary school teacher, I reckoned that their abandonment had advanced the children in their maths by about a year, allowing time for geometry and algebra.
Richard Goosey, Onibury