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Maths?

TheCatWoman

Are we Brits genetically bad at maths, poorly taught or what? It seems so many of us ND and NT really struggle with it and have done for years, so much so that it almost seems to be a point of national pride that we're collectively so bad at it.

All I know is that I'm terrible at it and couldn't pass a GCSE grade 3, even with special tutoring, it meant I failed my access course, luckily it didn't stop me going to uni because I didn't need maths for history. What makes it even worse is I seem unable to use a calculator either, I can put the same numbers in 3 times and get 3 different answers.

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  • Maths is just very poorly taught in uk secondary schools often by people who didn't do a maths degree. ... because the kind of people who do maths degrees don't want to work in the hell that is the secondery school system. The schools can not aford to pay enough to compensate for the unpaid overtime and stress and maths graduates have better options.

  • in reply to Peter

    I agree,  at school my maths teachers were not specialists.  One was a P.E teacher, who taught in a tracksuit and trainers, another was a history buff, who also taught history and took the kids out of school for an hour to look at local historical buildings and landmarks.

    At A level, in the two years we had several teachers, teaching different parts of the syllabus. When it came to exams and revision time, they struggled to answer the past exam questions.  I got a grade A because I read  the text books.

    And the current gcse standard is low, in 2024 to get a pass 4 you only needed 17.5% on the higher paper.  Pathetic!

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  • in reply to Peter

    I agree,  at school my maths teachers were not specialists.  One was a P.E teacher, who taught in a tracksuit and trainers, another was a history buff, who also taught history and took the kids out of school for an hour to look at local historical buildings and landmarks.

    At A level, in the two years we had several teachers, teaching different parts of the syllabus. When it came to exams and revision time, they struggled to answer the past exam questions.  I got a grade A because I read  the text books.

    And the current gcse standard is low, in 2024 to get a pass 4 you only needed 17.5% on the higher paper.  Pathetic!

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