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“Units are life or death!” I tell my students. I often use the following example:
Let’s say we’re all on a boat and Mary falls overboard. I turn to you and yell, “Quick, get me 12 of rope or Mary will die.” You bring me 12 centimeters but I needed 12 feet and alas, glug, glug, gurgle, gasp, poor Mary is dead. Units are important.
What specific lessons do you remember from your school days? I remember Mrs. Gallegos letting us watch Romeo and Juliet after reading the book in English class. In Spanish, Sra. Huerta celebrated Cinco de Mayo with a Hispanic food pot luck. The cat dissection in Anatomy and Physiology is a memory I won't soon forget. I can still recall the first 20 digits of pi thanks to the competition held in math class on Pi Day. However, while I remember the fundamentals Mrs.
