Numbers

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Working in a school, as a teaching assistant, my job is supporting students in numeracy lessons. I keep up with the lesson using a notebook, listening more than I did as a student.

As a child, I chatted with my best friend, rather than listen to our teacher.

I struggle with is algebra; when I see numbers and letters together, they make little sense. No matter my efforts, they merge into a mixed mess of confusion.

When I attended secondary, we had tiny books with all the pi (3.14) in; to calculate the area and circumference of a circle. Now there is a button on the calculator to work it out for you.

Next week, my level two math course starts. I wanted to do a GCSE, but failed the assessment. It was online, and the form was extremely difficult to navigate. However, if I do well enough, it is possible to move courses.

It is my belief, we are never too old to broaden our understanding.

We are reliant on technology for so our every day lives. Many are unable to tell the time on an anologue clock. We use money less, and if we showed them coins, they wouldn’t comprehend their value.

Cards, contactless mostly, take away the education we automatically shared with our children. Dad used to ask me to go to the shops, to by his paper, and I soon learned the positive experience of being trusted. A quarter pound of sweets, a comic, and a bag of marbles were my reward.

I worry cash would be a skill we are about to lose, if we don’t reverse the trend.

Published by writerravenclaw

I am a fifty something mother of two grown up children, and one beautiful grandchild. I have been married for nearly thirty-four years. My first book was published ten years ago. I wrote my book Sticks and Stones because of my experience of being bullied at school.

4 thoughts on “Numbers”

  2. I agree. It’s sad that technology does so much of our thinking for us, or we think that it does.

    As a side note, algebra never made sense to me either. It was the only part of math class I failed, but thankfully we could compensate by having higher grades on other parts.

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