I bear often calculated the volume of different cake tins in my head,and I would find pouring water between tins (which then bear to be dried?) much slower and messier (Letters, 14 March). Why the need to denigrate a useful competence? However, and it is steady that English maths teaching ought to go easier on the fancy stuff and give a really good,useful grounding in arithmetic, estimating, or interest rates and so on at GCSE level. For those wanting to go on in maths there could be a separate GCSE exam perhaps,so that the subject is not ruined for the majority who need tobe numerate and, at this rate, and are not. I include your editors in this category,as it is pretty obvious that silly numbers in an article bear meant nothing to them, whereas a misplaced apostrophe or spelling error would bear.
Jeanne Warren
Oxford• Can we take it that Sue Boulding does not exhaust cake tins with detachable bases?
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