Teacher training tests

[g3org3y]

martin84 said:

-pokes head into thread-

Out of interest how long was it before a PH'er opined teachers go home at 3.30pm?

3:45pm. Let the carpark empty out a little bit.

[turbobloke]

g3org3y said:

martin84 said:

-pokes head into thread-

Out of interest how long was it before a PH'er opined teachers go home at 3.30pm?

3:45pm. Let the carpark empty out a little bit.

Not a problem in August, pretty much permanently empty

[GadgeS3C]

Was helping out in a school last week. Very bright kids in the lower sixth. Mental arithment and approximation seems to have died a death though. "Can someone with a calculator work out £9.99 a month for 6 months?".

Both the maths teacher present and I beat them to it (without a calculator).

[turbobloke]

GadgeS3C said:

Was helping out in a school last week. Very bright kids in the lower sixth. Mental arithment and approximation seems to have died a death though. "Can someone with a calculator work out £9.99 a month for 6 months?".

Both the maths teacher present and I beat them to it (without a calculator).

Indeed. That's the point. Someone with a calculator!

Calculators aren't needed for sixty quid less 6p.

[Johnnytheboy]

SpeedMattersNot said:

Please provide a link to what you're talking about with regards to teaching standards and pay across the countries. It's not anything anyone would doubt, but a link to such would be useful for everyone to see. I for some reason imagine the kids in Finland and Iceland not to be of the typical variety we see in our country though - perhaps in Finland and Iceland kids don't stay behind to ask you what they should do about their alcoholic parents, or perhaps, the kids actually listen in the lessons rather than talking about their latest iPhone App.

I was hoping no one would ask me that!

I read it in an Alisdair Palmer column in the paper copy of the Sunday Telegraph more than a year ago. I tried to find it last night online, to no avail.

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turbobloke said:

GadgeS3C said:

Was helping out in a school last week. Very bright kids in the lower sixth. Mental arithment and approximation seems to have died a death though. "Can someone with a calculator work out £9.99 a month for 6 months?".

Both the maths teacher present and I beat them to it (without a calculator).

Indeed. That's the point. Someone with a calculator!

Calculators aren't needed for sixty quid less 6p.

They are . (And then there will be a range of answers - pupils will often struggle to use their calculators effectively because they don't have the mental arithmetic insight to avoid using calculators and so a range of answers is apparently of no consequence to them in general terms - it's OK, it's an answer, which is what the teacher wants at this point...)