Friday, 12 December 2008

More dumbing down ...

From the BBC:

The Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education welcomed the announcement. "It has long been felt that a single GCSE does not reward the level of difficulty and the workload compared to other subjects, and that [splitting up a Maths GCSE into two separate GCSEs] will help address this."

Er, which level of difficulty would that be, then?

4 comments:

marksany said...

It would be more mathematically correct to make all the others worth 1/2 a GCSE, surely?

ScotsToryB said...

Because we had to be shipped from school to the examination centre and for whatever reason we had to be there before 9am and because(twice in the same sentence-begone pedant, get thee behind me)we had two hours to kill before our GCE Maths, our lovely dominies thought it would be a ripping idea to propose us for SCE Arithmetic(9 to 10(or possibly 11): who remembers?)we all achieved an 'A' in arithmetic and believed it to be:

A) Rotten - we were supposed to have two free hours.

B) On Reflection - excellent: 'twas piece o' p*ss and we'll have an A*** O Level on our CV.

C) We were, and could remain, cocky enough to know that some time in the future it would make an important difference.

I think it all came down to Education thrice.

And that is not what is happening now.

STB.

ScotsToryB said...

Nothing worse than coming in from a hard (read relatively easy) shift and posting a comment only to realise that what you meant as 'A triple starred' may indeed be read as a delicate means of saying Arse.

The Horror. The Horror.

STB.

Anonymous said...

i) adding up
ii) taking away
iii) dividing
iv) multiplying

Where do I pick up my degree?