From the BBC:
The Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education welcomed the announcement. "It has long been felt that a single GCSE does not reward the level of difficulty and the workload compared to other subjects, and that [splitting up a Maths GCSE into two separate GCSEs] will help address this."
Er, which level of difficulty would that be, then?
Male Talkers
1 hour ago
4 comments:
It would be more mathematically correct to make all the others worth 1/2 a GCSE, surely?
Because we had to be shipped from school to the examination centre and for whatever reason we had to be there before 9am and because(twice in the same sentence-begone pedant, get thee behind me)we had two hours to kill before our GCE Maths, our lovely dominies thought it would be a ripping idea to propose us for SCE Arithmetic(9 to 10(or possibly 11): who remembers?)we all achieved an 'A' in arithmetic and believed it to be:
A) Rotten - we were supposed to have two free hours.
B) On Reflection - excellent: 'twas piece o' p*ss and we'll have an A*** O Level on our CV.
C) We were, and could remain, cocky enough to know that some time in the future it would make an important difference.
I think it all came down to Education thrice.
And that is not what is happening now.
STB.
Nothing worse than coming in from a hard (read relatively easy) shift and posting a comment only to realise that what you meant as 'A triple starred' may indeed be read as a delicate means of saying Arse.
The Horror. The Horror.
STB.
i) adding up
ii) taking away
iii) dividing
iv) multiplying
Where do I pick up my degree?
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