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RE: I HATE math; I LOVE math. Is it me, and only me, the one with this dilemma? The importance of mathematics !!
I shall include this in the next maths magazine - hope that's fine with you. Especially as you haven't used any of the #mathematics tags! Thanks for the article.
I really think school maths needs to be split in two: practical mathematics for everyone; and pure maths for future quants, scientists, mathematicians etc.
I had the opportunity to work in Dubai for awhile and as such got to jump over to Pakistan for tourism ... due to the large population education has to be modified and molded such that they can cover a large potion of the population ..hence games..... even while cooking the kids are asked to remember to "count the 3 of spoons for spice and so on " ... conventional schooling will be history in no time... txs.
At the school were I am teaching we follow the Independent Examination Boars Curriculum and they split maths at high school level in exactly those two part.
That's interesting. Is it working? In the sense that those students who do not wish to study more abstract maths are at least functionally competent in more practical mathematics?
This is actually a very old idea going back to medieval and renaissance Italy where workshops would teach functional topics such as accounting, geometry, navigation etc.
I think it is, but I can ask the two maths teachers and get a more definite answer for you.