>> Yet Rishi is ridiculed fo suggesting maths education is holding UK back and needs to
>> be taught to 18. Truly pathetic!
If you've not got it at the sort of level you need to round/split a bill or compare unit pricing per 100 grams with per kilo by first year at senior school then I'm not sure trying to din it into you for another six years will help.
Part of the issue with our current education system is the emphasis on testing. Even if they're not officially pass/fail pupils who are not making grade know they're failing. If you're consistently treated as a 'fail' then by the time you're 11/12 it's likely you'll lose interest and stop engaging.
When I was at Primary School I read fluently very quickly and was well up to speed in writing and other studies except for number in which I consistently lagged. Although I passed selection for Grammar School I was slow at Maths all the way through and only passed O level at the third attempt where I fluked a B. Frankly, numbers frightened me.
Early experience at work of having to do a daily cash balance thoroughly racked my 18/19 year old nerves and probably resulted in me being re-posted to a role not involving cash handling etc.
Only much later, in my mid twenties, when I had time to do account reconstructions, reconciliations and error finding in my own time and my own pace did I acquire the confidence to discus and justify calculations to my bosses.
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