Friday, August 3, 2012

Finally found The Metric Marvels

For several years I have mentioned to people, including students in my classes, about cartoons that I saw as a little kid that were like School House Rock only they introduced me to the metric system. There was a Meterman (in the cartoon I learned that a millimeter was about the thickness of a dime and that a meter was a little longer than a yard) and there was a Wondergram (in the cartoon I learned that a gram was about the weight of a paper clip). Try as I might, I could not find out about these cartoons. I was beginning to think I had imagined the whole thing. Well, tonight I finally stumbled across information about them - they were called The Metric Marvels and more details can be found here: http://www.thefullwiki.org/The_Metric_Marvels. A black and white introductory clip can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW98QCk2FdA.

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