Maths snore

[Steve H]

By the time I was half-way through, I was thinking "who fkn cares?" - and the government wnat to inflict this shite on all kids till they're 18!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zqgb9ty?at_mid=9FEtve4L6q&at_campaign=Triangle_Maths_Challenge&at_medium=display_ad&at_campaign_type=owned&at_link_origin=promo_box&at_audience_id=TV&at_product=bitesize&at_ptr_name=bbc&at_ptr_type=media&at_format=image&at_objective=consumption&at_link_title=Triangle_Maths_Challenge&at_bbc_team=BBC

[Outrider]

By the time I was half-way through, I was thinking "who fkn cares?" - and the government wnat to inflict this shite on all kids till they're 18!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zqgb9ty?at_mid=9FEtve4L6q&at_campaign=Triangle_Maths_Challenge&at_medium=display_ad&at_campaign_type=owned&at_link_origin=promo_box&at_audience_id=TV&at_product=bitesize&at_ptr_name=bbc&at_ptr_type=media&at_format=image&at_objective=consumption&at_link_title=Triangle_Maths_Challenge&at_bbc_team=BBC

It remains to be seen what will be put on the proposed post-16 'core' maths curriculum, but the maths teachers and Head-Teachers that I know are of the opinion that it needs to include how tax works (ratios, percentages, compound interest), basic statistics (conventions for bar charts and the like) and probability.

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[jeremyp]

By the time I was half-way through, I was thinking "who fkn cares?" - and the government wnat to inflict this shite on all kids till they're 18!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zqgb9ty?at_mid=9FEtve4L6q&at_campaign=Triangle_Maths_Challenge&at_medium=display_ad&at_campaign_type=owned&at_link_origin=promo_box&at_audience_id=TV&at_product=bitesize&at_ptr_name=bbc&at_ptr_type=media&at_format=image&at_objective=consumption&at_link_title=Triangle_Maths_Challenge&at_bbc_team=BBC

In what way is it shite? It's just a series of mathematical puzzles relating to triangle angles. For the right age group, there's nothing wrong with it.

[jeremyp]

It remains to be seen what will be put on the proposed post-16 'core' maths curriculum, but the maths teachers and Head-Teachers that I know are of the opinion that it needs to include how tax works (ratios, percentages, compound interest), basic statistics (conventions for bar charts and the like) and probability.

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Seems like a good idea to me. Everybody needs to know some statistics.

[Aruntraveller]

Seems like a good idea to me. Everybody needs to know some statistics.

Just not the ones that are damned lies. 

[jeremyp]

Just not the ones that are damned lies.

Statistics done correctly is not lies. The problem is that it is easy to do them wrong or misrepresent them. It's also easy to spot the wrongness but only if you ave a base understanding of statistics.

[Udayana]

Statistics done correctly is not lies. The problem is that it is easy to do them wrong or misrepresent them. It's also easy to spot the wrongness but only if you ave a base understanding of statistics.

I suspect they would learn enough to lie with them rather than "do" them correctly.

[jeremyp]

I suspect they would learn enough to lie with them rather than "do" them correctly.

That's not the point. I'm not suggesting that people need to learn how to do statistics, only how to understand them.