LETTER: Imperial units back in school

The reintroduction of imperial measures would mean them being taught once more in schools.

Will we go back to imperial measurements?
Will we go back to imperial measurements?

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

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