In our Latin exam, we had a passage from Virgil that we were supposed to have studied about which they asked some questions. One of them was "what was the relationship between Orpheus and Euridice?" to which a friend answered 'they were just good friends'. I don't think she passed
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I didn't revise for my geography exam. You lost a mark of you didn't put a title on the map. I wrote the title but that was all. I got one mark. I always came second to bottom in maths. I was off school for a week or so with nothing much to read but my maths textbook. That year I came first in maths having finished the exam with time to spare. Just goes to show how good my maths teacher was. Next exam I came second to bottom again. I always hated how precise you had to be in maths. To this day I can estimate in less than half the time it takes my husband to work it out correctly. I'm never far off. Close enough is good enough in most cases as far as I'm concerned.
My first year of French at grammar school ended with an exam. The first part of the paper said, in English, that I should write a story about Jules and Pierre going for a walk. So I did. In English.
Father’s Day spent at the cemetery and it was busy there. But why do some people think they can take over the place? One group had music blaring out from their cars for over 15 minutes so no one else within sight could hear themselves think or pray or even talk to their family members. It’s such selfish behaviour.
Whenever I read posts about whoever needs the maths after school I just chuckle to myself and continue taking my salary for just that. Not exactly those questions but other easy maths that nobody bothered to remember after school.
So whatever your situation is just think on before you pass on those ideas to children still in the system. You never know what future they could miss by not knowing pythagorus' theorem or other very basic maths
Our maths teacher (selective grammer school) was explaining logarithms and at the end of her lecture asked those who didn't understand to put their hand up. She then just looked at the 2 of us with scorn and said "you two will never understand it" and she was quite right.
I had issues with a level calculus or integration in certain things not everything about them just a block about certain aspects. My success at maths exam centred on those aspects not being significant.
Later on in maths for engineers in the first year we covered the same topic. They had to bring all students run the same level before taking it further as not everyone did that kind of maths I believe.
Anyway, I started on the lecture where my a level maths bete noir resided. They moved through the whole topic in 10 minutes and I kept up. In the time from school to two weeks into uni I just got it. No difficulties at all. It's funny because it could be I talked myself into not understanding it or maturity of a few months or simply the maths lecturer just explained it better. I have no idea why but it was strange.
BTW I think maths can be taught well but mostly isn't. I think the proof in that is here how people talk about not liking or needing or simply poor teacher attitude. Although now there's a whole new approach with maths education I think, certainly at primary school. I think modern crop of youngsters are possibly going to be more maths literate than past generations. I hope so because it feeds into so much without people thinking about it. For example maths is throughout politics, public sector, production, etc. I'm not sure people actually realise how much maths is in their life.
Not one maths teacher ever explained what a calculation could be used for. As far as I was concerned, we were juggling meaningless numbers. I could see the basic value of geometry without explanation but why do you need to know the area under a graph? What did all those numbers in that little book of tables mean? I used to open the page, shut my eyes and stick a pin to pick one.
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“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I always came second to bottom in maths. I was off school for a week or so with nothing much to read but my maths textbook. That year I came first in maths having finished the exam with time to spare. Just goes to show how good my maths teacher was.
Next exam I came second to bottom again.
I always hated how precise you had to be in maths. To this day I can estimate in less than half the time it takes my husband to work it out correctly. I'm never far off. Close enough is good enough in most cases as far as I'm concerned.
So whatever your situation is just think on before you pass on those ideas to children still in the system. You never know what future they could miss by not knowing pythagorus' theorem or other very basic maths
Later on in maths for engineers in the first year we covered the same topic. They had to bring all students run the same level before taking it further as not everyone did that kind of maths I believe.
Anyway, I started on the lecture where my a level maths bete noir resided. They moved through the whole topic in 10 minutes and I kept up. In the time from school to two weeks into uni I just got it. No difficulties at all. It's funny because it could be I talked myself into not understanding it or maturity of a few months or simply the maths lecturer just explained it better. I have no idea why but it was strange.