I cant understand how a couple where one partner earns £50k and the other earns £10k have to pay back half their child benefit yet another couple who earn £49,999 each can keep the full entitlement of child benefit.
Why on a weekday my kids have to literally be dragged out of bed, but on a Saturday and Sunday they are up at 6am running round, making loads of f***ing noise!!
No, you probably won't use trigonometric equations in the real world, anymore than you'll need to know the periodic table.
It proves to the teacher who is the Lord commander of your future, that you have the capacity to learn and to what level. A bit like a filter to stop dustmen becoming nuclear scientists by accident
Yet some people with the iq of a nuclear scientist can still end up in roles such as dustmen.
I'm going to call for a new Educational system based around life skills and you only learn what you wish to become... except you start this style of learning at age 10.
We'll call it Selective Education and it will be huge in North Korea.
Pythagoras... Why is it a standard thing to teach in schools?
I see most maths like that as a tool for teaching general problem-solving. As others have said, there's a lot of maths that most people won't use in their day-to-day lives (which is true for every single subject in fact), but it's certainly the case that finding different ways to approach a range of problems, which should be at the heart of mathematical teaching, is beneficial for all learning.
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You and Paulie both. Glad you're not alone
Put a fckin towel around yourself you pervert, what are you hoping for?
Think I'll leave it there otherwise this will go way off topic
I'm going to call for a new Educational system based around life skills and you only learn what you wish to become... except you start this style of learning at age 10.
We'll call it Selective Education and it will be huge in North Korea.
I remember plating a west Indian girl who had THE sweetest, most fantastic tasting vajayjay ever
Compared to a girl of travelling stock who tasted of chemicals. Specifically vim
As others have said, there's a lot of maths that most people won't use in their day-to-day lives (which is true for every single subject in fact), but it's certainly the case that finding different ways to approach a range of problems, which should be at the heart of mathematical teaching, is beneficial for all learning.
In fact all Disciples of Confucius.
They Confuce me.