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#164 How to plan a maths lesson with Craig Latimir
Mr Barton Maths Podcast
The History of Meters
Do you know why a meter is as long as a meter is definitely not no I do not but I'm straight in here gone yeah isn't that fascinating so it used to be the case that beforehand when people were using measurements for things mostly for tax purposes they would use the length of sort of royal body parts arms legs hands feet all those things. But then when international trade became more more commonplace what are you gonna do because your king's arms bigger than my queen's furton all these things we need it we need a common thing we can agree on and so the french luckily had an idea what is the thing that we all share and well we all share the planet earth let's
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