Reply to: Quarter of English have maths skills of ten-year-old

[SueEllen]

No, he's just an arse.

The thick quarter don't watch the news - it's "boring"

WPS

[Platypus]

On the BBC news, Business editor Preston pants makes use of the most unnecessary pauses between his words. Then it occurred to me, he's speaking for the thick quarter.

No, he's just an arse.

The thick quarter don't watch the news - it's "boring"

[scooterscot]

On the BBC news, Business editor Preston pants makes use of the most unnecessary pauses between his words. Then it occurred to me, he's speaking for the thick quarter.

[Platypus]

that might mean 1 / 4^n adults, for some fairly small value of n, have the maths skills of an embryo

Suity and SAS ?

EDIT: oh, maths skills, I thought you said social skills

[MyUserName]

People in northern regions might not read the story as they are busy eating pies.

FTFY

[darmstadt]

When I first started in comupting I was told that my English qualifications were more important then my (non-existent) maths ones as that meant I would be able to RTFM and be able to understand it. That held true until the day I had to fix code in hexadecimal :-(

[bless 'em all]

So because a quarter of ten year olds have the math skills of a 5 year old, and quarter of five year olds the skills of a two year old and so on, that might mean 1 / 4^n adults, for some fairly small value of n, have the maths skills of an embryo

At least an embryo can multiply *2.

[Mich the Tester]

I believe you.

That's the most worrying thing anyone's said to me all day.

[scooterscot]

I would read it if I found it even slightly interesting.

I believe you.

[scooterscot]

You are assuming we can read it at all. Good to see our reputation is improving.

You're

Was this deliberate?

[Mich the Tester]

People in the southern regions might read the story if they could.

I would read it if I found it even slightly interesting.

[scooterscot]

People in northern regions might not read the story if there are no pies in it.

People in the southern regions might read the story if they could.

[northernladuk]

People in northern regions might not read the story if there are no pies in it.

You are assuming we can read it at all. Good to see our reputation is improving.

[d000hg]

It would also be interesting to find out, how many of those literate kids have immigrant parents.

Well the Polish ones are probably pulling the numbers up based on the wife's experience teaching reception in a school with a large Polish contingent. Always smartly turned out, polite and attentive apparently.

Compare the UK with Poland and other E.European countries for maths and programming contests...

[amcdonald]

People in northern regions might not read the story if there are no deep fried pies in it.

FTFY