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Maths GCSE's

TheCatWoman

More people have passed thier GCSE's this year than last, well done them. But I was anazed at how many students are doing resits, maybe three or more times and still not passing the required grade. Apparently the more times you try the less likely you are to pass, this says to me that theres something wrong with the way these students are being taught, or they have an undiagnosed learning difficulty? I couldn't pass a GCSE at grade C which was the pass mark then I think they've changed from 1 -5 or something now.

How we all at maths?

How do you think it could be taught differently or better?

Are to many children not being picked up with learning difficulties and do we expect maths to be difficult and allow some children to fail? It seems that difficulties with reading and writing are picked up quite young, why not with maths?

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  • It's an interesting debate as to the best way to teach any subject give our natural biases in what we are good and bad at understanding. We also develop at a differing rate. I was a slow developer and ended up going to a Secondary Modern rather than a Grammer School. By 18 I aced my A-levels. For me it was English that I struggled with, and I felt the tuition through out school was abysmal, I'm for every grateful that word processors had arrived soon after I started work.

    I'm convinced that all Secondary School teachers should have at least 5 years experience in the world outside of the educational environment. Then they would be in a better placed to understand what are the likely demands that will be placed on their students in the workplace when they leave the school.

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  • It's an interesting debate as to the best way to teach any subject give our natural biases in what we are good and bad at understanding. We also develop at a differing rate. I was a slow developer and ended up going to a Secondary Modern rather than a Grammer School. By 18 I aced my A-levels. For me it was English that I struggled with, and I felt the tuition through out school was abysmal, I'm for every grateful that word processors had arrived soon after I started work.

    I'm convinced that all Secondary School teachers should have at least 5 years experience in the world outside of the educational environment. Then they would be in a better placed to understand what are the likely demands that will be placed on their students in the workplace when they leave the school.

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