Rishi Sunak, as our leader and therefore ideal person to get the country out of the sorry clusterfeck it is in, has decided it would be a great idea for all school-leavers to stay on till they are 18 studying maths.
Here is a quiz made up of some typical GCSE / O-Level questions that would appear on the final exam paper, the 'Sunak Level' presumably.
I was chuffed with my 8.5/10, though #2 is damned silly and anyone buying train tickets for six and accepting a 3% charge for using a credit card wants to have a word with themselves.
5 - So I haven't completely lost my marbles, admit I couldn't be arsed to work some of them out. Hated maths, but I've mananged to get through life okay.
Post by Berry McPaper-cuts on Jan 4, 2023 17:30:12 GMT
Will it be like Jethro in ‘The Beverley Hillbillies’ and you stay until you pass? What is he swapping out of the curriculum to make room for the Maths? Where are the Maths teachers coming from? Money would be better spent on teaching maths properly in Primary Schools to my mind. Concentrate on Maths and English as per when children were literate and numerate.
Money would be better spent on teaching maths properly in Primary Schools to my mind
Totally agree. If the kids can't get a grasp of the subject by the time they're 16, that subject clearly isn't for them so another two years won't make much difference.
Moodyson #2 had to take an English and a maths exam before getting onto his teacher training. He passed the English easily but he's always struggled with maths, still does. It took three attempts at this exam before he passed by one point. If he'd failed the third, he would not have been allowed a re-take and therefore the training for two years.
All the people who could work out If a train left London for Manchester travelling at 70 miles per hours, and another left 15 minutes later travelling at 75 miles per hour, which arrived first, must be pi$$ed off at the moment.