The insult of low expectations
A couple of recent articles in the British press left me feeling incredibly sad. The first one reports that Andy Haldane, the ex-chief economist of the Bank of England, has said that mathematics should be called numeracy to make it less scary.
How patronising.
He said:
Numbers are important [...] because it's important t…
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