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

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

I earn my living programming and I'm mediocre at maths.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I've got by in life, counting on my fingers, but there are situations I try to avoid. I could never have worked in a shop, for instance. Ask me to give change and I panic.

[algabal.livejournal.com]

Same here. I'm a programmer, so people presume that I must be mathematically and scientifically inclined, but I'm really quite illiterate in these areas.