Originally Posted by maxthecollie (Post 1045462)

No Reece Owen taught Chemistry

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 1045464)

Mr Owen, chemistry teacher, lived on Catlow Hall St adjacent to St Marys church.

I recall going to his son's birthday party (in late 1940's or early 50s) and Mr Owen entertained us with chemical trickery such as invisible ink.

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 1045464)

Mr Owen, chemistry teacher, lived on Catlow Hall St adjacent to St Marys church.

I recall going to his son's birthday party (in late 1940's or early 50s) and Mr Owen entertained us with chemical trickery such as invisible ink.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 1045467)

I was friends with his Daughter Rehanan (not sure of the spelling)

Originally Posted by maxthecollie (Post 1045525)

Well it is a welsh name

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 1045538)

Ya but did I spell it right Frank:rolleyes::D

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 1045539)

No

Rhiannon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 1045551)

Thanks Margaret, it was quite close really, well for me it was:D

Originally Posted by Eric (Post 1045600)

By the by, I notice that women in Saudi Arabia still don't have the vote; so, I guess the celebrating of IWD will not be a big item in the muslim world.:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by Eric (Post 1045591)

Yes ... you are getting better ... but you will no doubt create new gems with your magic keyboard;):D Whatever, there were two Owens, E. J "Gobbin" Owen, and R. P. (Rhys Prys??) Owen, who taught chemistry. Great teacher, with a wonderful Welsh accent. Nobody could say "Avogadro's hypothesis" like he could.:D His son, Rhys, was in my year at Accy Grammar. And his daughter, from what I remember, was a real sweetie.

Originally Posted by sugarmouse0707 (Post 1047515)

why do we need everybody to be brilliant at Maths?

Originally Posted by sugarmouse0707 (Post 1047515)

I was always absolutely rubbish at maths. I got even more rubbish once it was established that I was rubbish, because my Father took to trying to help me with it but he's a very impatient person and it often ended in shouting and yelling at me when I didn't pick something up quickly.

I was 'scared' of maths after this, which made it worse because I associated it with being shouted at and feeling bad about not being good at it, I kind of avoided it and as I got older I approached it again and found I wasn't so bad at it after all, now I wasn't feeling like I was bad for not being good at it!
Having said that, It's not affected me much. I second the algebra thing, and most of what I was taught in Maths at school makes no sense now whatsoever and has never been something I've needed to be good at.
I think it's over-rated and over-emphasised in teaching, regarded as a very important subject. Why does society need loads of people to be really good at maths?Just as we don't need a large massive number of astronauts or sociologists or people who are experts in other fields, why do we need everybody to be brilliant at Maths?

Originally Posted by DtheP47 (Post 1045435)

My pal Walter had a saying " The older I get the better I Was" ;)

Originally Posted by Less (Post 1047520)

It just doesn't add up does it?
;)

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 1047521)

Comes in handy on pay day though;)