A great tool for the teaching of the metric system!

Thinking Metric

Science & Math

Thomas F. Gilbert

Marilyn B. Gilbert

Mathematics

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Experiments, Instruments & Measurement

wiley

'"Thinking Metric, 3rd Edition", teaches you how to think in metric units directly, without converting, by using your own body and familiar objects as references. Memory aids make the learning easier, and rules-of thumb help you make approximate conversions to metric units.... A special chart directs you to sections which apply to you, and lets you bypass the rest." Practice problems and self-tests occur throughout. A 150 page, paperback designed to ease your way into "metrification" and comfortable compliance with federal regulations on purchasing initiated in 1992.

HRD Press, Inc.

Thomas Gilbert (1927-1995) was a psychologist who is often referred to as the founder of the field of performance technology, also known as Human Performance Technology (HPT). He never completed this autobiography. Clearly, he was still on a journey of discovery with numerous unfinished manuscripts in draft awaiting final revision and publication. Tom's own words introduce his story best. ...I had studied all there was to be known about human learning and that field was a complete mess. I felt I was going to have to do with it what Descartes had done with philosophy, start all over from scratch...Just before going my own way to reconstruct all of psychology...I sat down with [B.F.] Skinner's first book, "The Behavior of Organisms". This was about 1955, and I was a young assistant professor at the University of Georgia. I've never been the same since.
 While going through a number of storage boxes several years ago, Marilyn Gilbert, Tom's wife of twenty-seven years, found his unfinished autobiography. This book is that work, untouched, which provides intriguing insight into a man who has been referred to as one of the top three most brilliant American psychologists of the twentieth century.
 Performance Management Publications was selected to publish this work and added a special section with remembrances of Dr. Gilbert by a few of the people who were influenced by and/or were friends of Tom Gilbert. No other single person has had more influence on my work than Tom Gilbert. Joe Harless, Recipient of Member for Life award from the ISPI, author of Accomplishment-Based Curriculum Development System

Human Incompetence

Performance Management Publications

Human Competence

Business & Money

Jaico Publishing House

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