Teaching Maths

[poliphilo]

A new report, commissioned by the Tories, is recommending that children be taught maths until they're 18.  I so disagree.

Firstly, because lots of people are number blind and it's cruel to keep them slaving away. ( I'm one. Thanks to some very good teaching I passed my "O" level at the second attempt, dropped the subject with a sigh of relief and promptly went back to counting on my fingers.) 

Secondly because these days we've got calculators. 

Leave maths to those with an aptitude for it (like Ailz). 

Comments

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Since when did Benecol salesperson Carol Vorderman, who IIRC got a third from Sidney Sussex, become some kind of expert in the teaching of mathematics?

[ingenious76.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Under Gove The Cove's proposals, you need a 2:2 to teach. So she is exactly qualified to pontificate to teachers, is she?

(Plus that, and she's done precisely sweet FA since Countdown...)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Very good question.