In this KS2 Maths article you'll learn how to convert different units used to measure volume, mass and length. We also have a KS2 Maths quiz and lots of examples ...

Learn about choosing appropriate units and converting between units with this BBC Bitesize Maths article. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Conversion to metric system would be wise Mike Meehan, Las Vegas Saturday, Feb. 28, 2009 | 2:02 a.m.

Science News spoke with a metrologist about the metric system’s latest update, which will help scientists interpret exceedingly big and small numbers.

While children starting school this week will learn the metric system, many Britons remain attached to imperial measures. Will the UK ever give them up?

America’s reluctance to convert to the metric system was once famously lampooned by television’s longest-running animated sitcom, "The Simpsons," in an episode from way back in the Nineties ...

When Democrat Lincoln Chafee told a group of mostly young journalists and even younger college students that if elected president he would convert the U.S. to the metric system, the response in ...

Today, the metric system, which was created in France, is the official system of measurement for every country in the world except three: the United States, Liberia and Myanmar, also known as Burma.