[BITList] Fwd: Numeracy Campaign: What we can learn from China -Telegraph

[John Feltham]

Hugh,

On 22/06/2012, at 18:13 PM, HUGH wrote:

> I've read it through, and maths is mentioned all through, but I can't get a 
> notion of what they mean.  Numeracy is not mathematics, it's merely a tool 
> that can be useful in some branches of mathematics, but is not needed in 
> others.  The "maths" taught in schools, age 5 to 12, is all about 
> manipulating numbers - it's geared up to accountancy or working in a 
> bookie's.  Nowadays it's up to the 10 times multiplication tables, whereas 
> in my day it was 12, and in my Dad's it was 15. 

And in India where Mike and I started school there in 1947, it was up to the 16 times table!

16 annas made one rupee!

ooroo