Critics are warning that union plans to cut back on times tables and grammar tests in primary schools threaten children’s education, particularly for those from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Is probability all in the mind, as the Bayesians say, or does it tell us about the real world as well? Will Jones delves into the mind-bending twists and turns of how our brains make sense of the uncertainties we face.
In America, a woke version of mathematics is catching on in schools, where different races can get different solutions, kids connect with cauliflowers and there is no wrong answer.
According to a recent poll, more than 50% teens think the world will end in their lifetimes. Fourteen year-old Jack Watson thinks he knows why: no lesson is complete without a dose of climate alarmism, including French!
Woke is finally catching up with the sciences as mathematicians in British universities are told to "decolonise" the curriculum by downgrading the status of objective rational knowledge – quite literally insane.
