I was never very good at math's a school, i zoned out of so many lessons about triangles and fractions that half the time i was looking out the window and the other three quarters i was scribbling things about George Michael on the front of my math's book but the Government are considering making changes to make the subject less challenging by changing the name to numeracy.
According to someone in Government responsible for these things, the name mathematics is 'too academic and scary' and what teachers with patches on the elbows of their jackets should be teaching is 'real world math's' which apparently is math's we use in our everyday lives and never to my knowledge have i been stood in a shop, bank or anywhere desperately trying to remember what pi or calculus is so i have always assumed that all those lessons i missed, didn't really matter.
My view is as long as you have a working knowledge of the times tables, can divide, subtract and add, are able to find a percentage of something you will always get by and as most things have a calculator included, don't fret.
Of course if your career depends on math's then do fret, nobody wants a building or vehicle designed by somebody who said: 'Whatever, that's close enough' but otherwise, you can always get by with a basic knowledge of Sums, Math's, Arithmetic, Numeracy or whatever they call it, i would say getting a proper grip on English is more important, the amount of people who get there, their and they're wrong is embarrassing.
Sunday 5 June 2022
Sums, Math's, Arithmetic Or Numeracy?
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right, and if it is anything like the left in America, there will no longer be a need to get the answer "correct". it seems that one of the long list of flaws of American whites is that we racistly over index on the "correct" answer. we are so anal. if we had simply zoomed by the moon, or in the general area that would be the same or just as good as actually landing on the moon.
The good news for America is that many people use non-racist math already. For example, the airlines use non-racist math for calculating departure and landing times. So do climate scientists building climate models. And meteorologists when predicting rain. Sports may soon do it to, after all shouldn't hitting the posts or cross bar be as good as hitting the net? and if a putt ends up with a few feet of the hole that should count - - what is the obsession of getting the ball in the little hole. I mean, Common man?
quote 'if your career depends on math's then do fret' unquote
circa 1900, we needed fewer farmers and more people capable of operating machines and managing complex assembly processes. farmers that were displaced by farm machines didn't have the skills to work in factories - - a key factor in the causing the great depression because unemployment was 25% plus.
today, we are approaching the next huge displacement of work. America's economy now needs people that know math, applied math, computer programming. we have a "factory" oriented workforce that lack the skills to transition to the new economy. our open borders are insuring that unemployed Americans can't get low skill jobs because Mexicans, Hondurans, Columbians, etc.
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