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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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  • At least for my school, an inner London comp a long time ago, it was not taught that well.

    I had a good teacher when younger and got my O level at 14.
    Then lost interest a bit, got 3% in the A level mock at Christmas, but went on to do much better after we had a supply teacher and got an adequate grade.
    So teaching had something to do with it.

    But I always viewed it as a tool to be used by other subjects and did the minimum, whereas the people I knew who did really well in maths (and went on to do maths degrees) liked it as a subject in its own right and spent a lot of their own time on it. It's something that requires time, practice and putting in the work, which does not inspire most people.

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  • At least for my school, an inner London comp a long time ago, it was not taught that well.

    I had a good teacher when younger and got my O level at 14.
    Then lost interest a bit, got 3% in the A level mock at Christmas, but went on to do much better after we had a supply teacher and got an adequate grade.
    So teaching had something to do with it.

    But I always viewed it as a tool to be used by other subjects and did the minimum, whereas the people I knew who did really well in maths (and went on to do maths degrees) liked it as a subject in its own right and spent a lot of their own time on it. It's something that requires time, practice and putting in the work, which does not inspire most people.

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