Maffs - Last nights Despatches prog

[deakers]

Here's the Maths test

Dispatches - Features - Maths Quiz - Channel 4

11/14 for me. Still committing the same errors I did in school 25 years ago! Slow down and read the bloody question.

 

[Vankleek Hill Seagull]

9/14. My fractions suck and I also didn't read a couple of questions properly.

 

[alan partridge]

8 right

 

[Barrel of Fun]

14/14. Maths was always my strongest subject. Eleven times out of ten, I would normally get full marks on a quiz like this.

 

[drew]

13 right, satisfied with that.

 

[Cian]

14/14, those temperature conversion ones nearly screwed me up.

 

[Martinf]

They said my answer to question 4 ('twat') was incorrect. I gave up after that.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

14 but that c to f one did make me stop for a minute.

 

[8ace]

14/14 easy-peasey

 

[backson]

14/14, finished in 3 1/2 minutes.

But I've always found maths easy

 

[The Large One]

14/14. Peasy.

Maths was always my best subject, which is why I'm in probably in publishing.

 

[sten_super]

13/14. That bloody c to f one!

 

[Nibble]

I got zero out of 14. The comment was How canthis be possible!

I was always TERRIBLE at maths at school. Despite extra lessons, extra help the teacher could explain over and over again and I just never got it, ever. Doesn't surprise me at all. I look at those questions and as much as I try I just cannot make sense of them. Poor effort!

 

[Husty]

14/14, but aiming for an A at AS I would hope so

 

[CliveWalkerWingWizard]

14/14 a few tricky ones in there - tried to make my other half take it but she is refusing - Primary school teachers !

By the way I watched the programme and thought that whilst getting pupils to visualise maths is good I don't think you can sacrifice methodology. You may be able to visualise 1/2 divided by 1/4 but can that help you solve 1/3 divded by 3/7 ?

 

[Publius Ovidius]

7/14...but I cocked up two where I knew the answers and because I am old, I put down the wrong amount


I am deeply depressed

 

[Publius Ovidius]

AGA_A26 on 15 February 2010 at 21:12 I come from Poland where you can forget about being a teacher without having finished university. And if you fail a subject or two the teacher just won't let you go to the next class. At the end of primary school there is a final exam which decides if you can go to secondary school, and then you take another one at the secondary school of your choice - that decides if they take you of not. If you fail you can go to vocational chool and become a hairdresser or a carpenter. I don't want to upset anybody, I've only finished secondary school, but when my friends send their children to English school they jump one or two years forward because the're bored...

Blimey!!!! That is a sad inditement of the system

 

[Gwylan]

14/14 - it was aimed at primary school children so it should be pretty easy.

 

[Storer68]

6 out of 14. It's 40 years since I bothered about fractions

 

[Nigella's Cream Pie]

12/14 but only took 3 mins. I thought the patio squares percentage qn was a trick one, thought I hadn't submitted the previous question, pattern seemed to be exactly the same.