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Teach primary pupils real-world maths - Labour
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this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2023
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Don't they understand that the problem with our education system is not that it doesn't teach useful real world things - it's that it's so crushingly dull that it destroys any natural curiosity that kids have. This proposal will make that worse.
One of the reasons kids can find math so dull is because it's not taught with enough relation to the real world. Maths teaching is often reduced to only doing sums for the sake of doing sums, which is not going to be interesting with most kids.
What makes maths interesting is how it can be used to understand there working of the real world, and if that connection isn't made it's very hard to create a lasting interest in maths among students.
Plus the standardised testing, plus the reliance on the falsehood that memorisation of facts = education, plus the terrible student to teacher ratio, plus the hostile classroom environment which leads to bullying, plus the complete disregard for individual learning styles and forcing 1-hour lessons and constant switching of topics...
Yeah, there's a lot more wrong with the education system than it looks like labour have plans to fix.
They will still get my anti-tory vote, and to them that's all that matters, but they won't get my pro-labour vote with this as it's clear that real education reform is still a lost cause.
That seems to be the goal, though.
Sorry, I posted a reply to your comment in the main feed rather than to you. Back to school for me!