Re: Modern Teaching Methods.
I don't know how they teach maths these days, but we were taught both maths and mental arithmetic which has stood me in good stead ever since, particularly in my working life as a builder.Re: Modern Teaching Methods.
Re: Modern Teaching Methods.
Contrary to popular belief, not everyone is able to learn tables by heart and recognise and use basic number facts/properties. Nor are they able to estimate lengths nor weights.Re: Modern Teaching Methods.
Funny thing is, not many people will admit to being hopeless at English, but quite a few will will admit to being poor at maths,Re: Modern Teaching Methods.
Re: Modern Teaching Methods.
Re: Modern Teaching Methods.
I enjoyed maths at school until we reached the trigonometry level with sines, cosines and tangents. I enjoyed using a slide rule at the beginning but it wasn’t long before everything became too complicated for my brain. Hence, I didn’t take it in my GCE exams.Re: Modern Teaching Methods.
Part of the problem is that maths (like many other subjects) is taught at primary (and, in some cases the first year at secondary) by people who have their own negative fears and/or ineptitude for the subject. Thus the cycle repeats itself, with negative affirmations producing negative outcomes.
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