Maths should be called numeracy to make it ‘less scary’ and help people cope with cost of living crisis, top economist says
Maths should be called numeracy to make it ‘less scary’ and help people cope with cost of living crisis, top economist says
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I called it numeracy whilst at primary school. That was over 20 years ago.
Just fuck off. It maths end of. Stop pandering down to those who find things difficult. We all have things we find hard.
Get a fucking grip thats life.
Physics scares the shit out of me can we call it something nice and fluffy.
Somehow every public statement by Andy Haldane seems tone deaf and somewhat insane. He might be brilliant as an economist, but I have never seen a policymaker so totally and repeatedly out of touch with real life, and so patronising at the same time. The one I remember best was his call to abandon cash so that the Bank of England could impose negative interest rates – a proposal that went down about as well as you’d expect.
It seems depressingly typical of this government that they would find the person least likely to understand inequality and its causes, and put him in charge of the levelling up task force.
Call it “Math” like the Americans do. That way there’s only one of them, not multiple. Should be easier.
Or how about we teach people things like household budgeting and the like separately from maths?
right, because as opposed to basic maths saying your full time wage doesnt cover rent, food and bills, it will be so much easier, if basic NuMeRaCy gives you the same result.
plonker.
As a maths teacher I think there is a point to be made about numeracy being taught separately from the rest of GCSE maths, but that doesn’t stop it being maths, and the benefits are not that it makes it ‘less scary’!
This only really applies at primary school though.
At secondary school, numeracy is a relatively small part of maths.
Primary school children are unlikely to take any notice of whether their multiplication homework is titled numeracy or maths, I would suggest.
Isn’t numeracy simply the subject Arithmetic. Maths is something altogether harder involving adding letters and other voodoo.
What a stupid take. I assume they have a list of names for us to rotate through after numeracy and subsequent names become equally as scary as maths.
Numeracy > Arithmetic > Mathematics.
15 years later:
“Numeracy should be called ‘number-wumbers’ to be ‘less scary’…”
They’ve rebadged it you fool!
What a plonker
This is a bit weird because I thought numeracy was just a part of maths. Like, I don’t know if you could put algebra or geometry under “numeracy”. Also I think there are separate college courses just for numeracy, for ppl that struggled with it in school. So this doesn’t make any sense lol