The fox was ok by-the-way
Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
Originally Posted by kattymieoww:
I am an absolute dodo as regards maths etc.I favoured English,history, art,design.I was okay at primary with numbers until we got a mental arithmetic test ..I got 6/100,the teacher made me do it again,same result 6 out of a hundred.
I was okay in the first two years of secondary school passing exams in maths and arithmetic,then third year and letters and squigly symbols and forumlas were introduced,my brain melted.
I can count etc ,just don't ask me how many litres of water are displaced in a cistern when the ballcock is lowered ..ohh matron!
See! This is my point. We need team work or socialism if you will. For every scientific genius such as, ahem, me, we need someone who understands the difference between conditional simple and conditional progressive, can spell big words, design adverts, perform effective double entendres, and know for how long the 100 years war lasted, or who it was fought by. 
Around 120 years, off and on - England and France, of course! 
And it's not 'who it was fought by' but 'By whom it was fought.'
Well....do I get the job? Eh...eh? 
It's more interesting than algebra!
See I think that this is the direction hoped for by Saint, or that Saint hoped for. English is a wonderful evolving language which doesn't need many rules.
Maths is absolute core.
All our current economic problems are as a result of peeps who can't count.
Well done Saint!
I noticed the following in t'Grauniad..........
"Those who missed digital day can look forward to 11:23 on 5 August 2013 - Fibonacci time. We can celebrate like his rabbits."
I thought that quite a good link between maths and rabbits. However I can see that I'm wasted on you lot.
