Half Of English Adults Have Poor Maths

TheZohanS

Half Of English Adults Have Poor Maths

http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16180719

Terrible Joe, terrible.

07734

half? sure that's three out of every ten who have bad maths. amazing.

GetWithIt

Should that not be 50% have poor maths and other 73% are ok?

Edit, damn, not quick enough.

Nothingbetter2d

so it's all adding up now eh?

py2006

Can they count to 800 years?

Anyone

The other half are Catholic.

jive

which is the bigger half?

frag420

Doesn't add up!

ejmaztec

The only ones with poor maths here are politicians and bankers. They always end up with a difference.

foxyboxer

90% of statistics are made up.

Fourfteen percent of people know that.

Carter P Fly

yup, beyond basic addition and subtraction I havent a clue about that maths stuff

ScumLord

Maybe they should have done sums in school instead.

Chuck Stone

Half are bad at maths, half are good at maths, and the half in the middle are just okay at maths.

ejmaztec

ScumLord wrote: »

Maybe they should have done sums in school instead.

They would have probably had to go to school to do that.

foxyboxer

Ya what mate? Like bloody 'Arry Redknapp eh?

Who can't read nor write proper nor do sums n that but e sure as 'ell can count is wonga innit!

smash

Hands up who can count to potato.

FoxT

What? Half of them are below average? That's shocking.

TheZohanS

smash wrote: »

Hands up who can count to potato.

I can...but only when I go for long walks in the saucepan.

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Doc Ruby

And in Cambodia, more than six out of seven adults adults have poor maths.

im invisible

answer this one then..

6÷2(1+2)=?

Chuck Stone

im invisible wrote: »

6÷2(1+2)=?

Blue?

biko

GetWithIt wrote: »

Should that not be 50% have poor maths and other 73% are ok?

Edit, damn, not quick enough.

You got a pity thanks out of me anyway :hugs:

biko

im invisible wrote: »

answer this one then..

6÷2(1+2)=?

1? (without calculator or google)

44leto

I love maths, I always enjoyed that subject, the problem solving, the challenge. I never understood why some people hated it with a passion. I suggest teachers should first teach the beauty of maths.

Maths is the most creative and beautiful thing us humans can do, I type this out on a mathematical based machine, maths is our modern world, it is the reason we are here and in each of us we have a mathematical brain, we need it for survival. For example 2 bears enter a cave and only 1 comes out, I better not go into that cave so.

In 1977 NASA launched 2 probes voyager 1 and 2 to rendezvous with 5 very distant planets and some of these worlds moons, those navigational calculations was a culmination of all mans mathematical knowledge dating from Egyptian times, the accuracy was equivalent to shooting a thread through the eye of a needle 25 miles away. The missions went flawlessly and gave us all those memorable amazing pictures.

TheZohanS

im invisible wrote: »

answer this one then..

6÷2(1+2)=?

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Ellis Dee

When I first read it, I thought it said half of English adults were having poor meths.:D

And with the other half swilling lager down their gullets, no wonder that country is so fcuked up.:rolleyes::rolleyes:

Nothingbetter2d

TheZohan wrote: »

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dont you remember being taught BOMDAS at school?

Brackets Ordinals multiplication division, adding, subtraction

TheZohanS

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

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dont you remember being taught BOMDAS at school?

Brackets Ordinals multiplication division, adding, subtraction

Different schools teach it in different ways.

FTGFOP

im invisible wrote: »

answer this one then..

6÷2(1+2)=?

Can you rephrase that? It's confusing as it's currently written.

Teyla Emmagan

I'm one of the duds unfortunately

cocoshovel

I cannot math what so ever
While we're on the topic, Ireland has a horrible teaching system when it comes to maths. So many teachers arent qualified to teach it and havent a downright clue.

Guill

So?

We can't educate everyone to the highest level, we need production line operators as well as engineers.

What has happened in Ireland over the last 10 years is that everyone went to college, no a degree isn't worth the paper it's written on when job hunting.

Temptamperu

Im sure there are plenty of Irish that are crap at maths. I for one gave up in school and just drew pictures of homer simpson and ryu from street fighter all over me maths books.

inmyday

Guill wrote: »

So?

We can't educate everyone to the highest level, we need production line operators as well as engineers.

What has happened in Ireland over the last 10 years is that everyone went to college, no a degree isn't worth the paper it's written on when job hunting.

But this article is about English adults. Does this mean that half of irish adults are poor at maths too????

Chuck Stone

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

I'm one of the duds unfortunately

Me too.

Equations just look like a headache on a page to me.

derfderf

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

I'm one of the duds unfortunately

This always puzzles me. My girlfriends degree and her career have nothing at all to do with maths but she seems almost embarrassed that she's useless at it. Yet she picked up more Spanish in three months than I managed with Irish after 14 years in school, but that wouldn't even faze me.

My writing would shame a drunk (a teacher told me this), and I once spelled my own name wrong on an email to the head of the D.I.T. maths department. I prefer to focus on what I can do, people that can't manage maths seem to dwell on that.