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UK citizen here. More specifically, English - the 4 "home" UK nations have different Education systems. I learned Calculus at 14, but I am now 56. We still u
by Wildgoose 5y ago
UK citizen here. More specifically, English - the 4 "home" UK nations have different Education systems.
I learned Calculus at 14, but I am now 56. We still used log tables when I was at school, calculators were only just being introduced. From what I have seen from my children, our maths education has been seriously dumbed down.
- ChuckNorris89 5y ago>our maths education has been seriously dumbed down. I hear this complaint form nearly every country. It seems like the system has found this "hack" where if you dumb things down enough, then scores go up across the board, giving the impression that the children are performing better, so the people in charge can meet or exceed their KPIs, and everybody's a "winner". For example, in Romania it was very difficult to get top grades at schools a few decades ago so those grades were used as entry criterias in universities, but nowadays everyone can get top grades without a sweat by carefully rigging the system, so universities have introduced their own entry exams since when everyone has top grades then they are all worthless.
- chucksmash 5y agoGoodhart's Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.