Maths teachers fail primary level test

[letric]

Maths teachers are failing standard arithmetic test for 11 year old pupils. devised by
Richard Dunne, a maths consultant and former university academic,


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article7026343.ece

[letric]

In addition to his famous mirror writing, polymath
Leonardo da Vinci invented a number of puzzles,
including Leonardo's Dissection, a curving motif than
can be divided into six and reassembled to form a
rectangle.Many of the puzzles require guesswork
and intelligence rather mathematical calculations
though some answers involve a satisfyingly complex
formulae.

[letric]

The Sieve of Eratosthenes is a classic puzzle involving primes
and composites while the section on Arithmetical Progressions
is by Snowflake and anti-Snowflake curves, Rott's Chaotic
Pendulum, the Serpinski Triangle, Fibonacci-Square Progressions,
and All Nines Paradox.

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Dunne said the tests showed that teachers “know so little maths that they cannot be conveying mathematics to their children”.