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Numeracy: an idea of a bygone age
We should be far more ambitious than the current concept of numeracy if our children are to thrive in an AI future.
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What's the point of ingredients if you don't make cake?
Maths is boring if it misses out the maths.
Nov 3, 2025
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Education is an inheritance not an escape
Working class intellectualism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a collective endeavour. Workers formed mutual improvement societies…
Oct 27, 2025
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There's nothing middle class about learning
Their motives were various, but their primary objective was intellectual independence… There is nothing distinctively “bourgeois” in this desire for…
Oct 20, 2025
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They'll be fine anyway
A response to being told not to bother helping smart kids learn more
Jul 24, 2025
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Does school make girls (relatively) bad at maths?
New data from France says yes.
Jul 10, 2025
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The quest for truth
Mathematics is the only way to get there - but not if we teach it like this
Jun 16, 2025
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Some questions about our AI future
Who wins, who loses, and what does this mean?
May 19, 2025
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