[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by jaysay

According to the morning news today is World Maths Day, we all know that English wasn't my best subject at school, but I wasn't too bad at maths, one thing I could never understand is why in my school days did they pay so much attention to teaching Algebra, not once since leaving school have I ever come across the need to use it once, anybody feel the same. I've used maths a lot in my job and Trigonometry as well, that's all about nangles as we called um in them days. What was your take on maths and your usage of it when leaving school

Eyup John, dus 2 an 2 still mek 4.
All I ever new wur mi times tables.
When I was at school there was a war on, an the idiot that was suposed to teach us maths spent more time with large maps hanging on the blackboard, explaining Montgomery & Rommels tactics, so whe I left school I knew very little about fancy sums, had quite a few ready reckoners and charts in my tool box.
Then along came Sinclair and his DIY calculator kits.