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 02:52 pm (UTC)Just because maths is taught badly in a lot of schools doesn't mean it shouldn't be taught at all, it just means that maths teaching should be done better!!
I have absolutely no "aptitude" for maths (whatever that means), yet I hit lucky, had amazing teachers at secondary school and passed A-level at the second attempt with a grade C. If I can do A-level maths, anyone can. Seriously.
Sorry, but you hit a hot button there.
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Date: 2011-08-08 08:27 pm (UTC)