On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 11:33:41 +0000, "Dan S. MacAbre" wrote:

p-0''0-h the cat (coder) wrote:
On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:59:31 +0000, "Dan S. MacAbre" wrote:

p-0''0-h the cat (coder) wrote:

Another triumph for conservatism. I wonder who's behind this brainwave.
Heaven help the world after Brexit with Boris in charge and this kind of
forward creative thinking. We're gonna be 'Yuge'. UK UK UK

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-43046142

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Our lad's already been doing times tables test for the last year and a
half, and he still forgets them :-) Too many other distractions in a
kid's life, these days. Having said that, if someone were to ask me
what 6 * 7 is, I'd still have to go 6 * 6 = 36, and then add 6. Same
for 7 * 8.

Playing darts sharpened me up. Of course nowadays they would have to
provide a safe space and a non competitive environment for learning. I
still feel the need for therapy 40 years later. #mepoohdartsrecovery

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My dad can do that. Tell you what you need to finish, each time you hit
the wrong numbers (I'm hopeless at darts).

The idea of having a dartboard in the classroom is an interesting one
:-) Seems unlikely these days. I know you didn't mean that, but the
thought of it made me laugh.

I'm not sure repetition is what they should be teaching. Personally, I
know I lack the foundation skills of how to solve mathematical problems
and hence I work much harder when I have to do something like that than
I would do [I'm a programmer] if I had been taught those skills. The
times table stuff was dying when I was at school. It doesn't strike me
as being close to what kids nowadays need going forward into the future.

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