Chapter 5: Survey And Educational Implications Of S.I.
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Published:2019
Sharon E. Odegard, 2019. "Survey And Educational Implications Of S.I.", Selected Writings from the Journal of the Saskatchewan Mathematics Teachers' Society: Celebrating 50 years (1961-2011) of vinculum, Egan J. Chernoff, Gale L. Russell, Bharath Sriraman
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It is the standardized metric system, namely the International System of Units. The symbol, SI, is from the French translation, Systeme International d’Unites.
The SI is a rationalized and coherent system of measurement. It has been developed and approved by countries, which participate in the activities of the General Conference of Weights and Measures (GCWM), the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electro-technical Commission (IEC). Canada is a member of all of these organizations.
The SI consists of 7 base units; 2 supplementary units and a number of derived units (Table 1). Decimal multiples and sub-multiples of the SI units are formed by means of the prefixes given in Table 2. Some non-SI units will still be used with the SI (Table 3).
