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

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

I flunked high school Algebra. Years passed and I went on to college, where two semesters of math were required for any kind of degree. After a lot of hard work on my own, I got an "A". Needless to say I was overjoyed, because I had believed all my life that I was completely disabled in mathematics. I guess it was just a question of readiness. I did not continue with math beyond the required course.