Teaching Maths
Aug. 8th, 2011 01:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloA 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).
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).
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Date: 2011-08-08 01:06 pm (UTC)There are always going to be exceptional people who think maths is fun. Concentrate on them and give the rest of us a break!