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BBC: UK adults fail child's maths test

One in 14 adults cannot answer a maths question aimed at eight-year-old children, a survey suggests.

One in 14… That's almost 23%!

Richard Carter

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Yoghurt of Despair says:

19-Jul-2007 at 09:10

The part of this item which annoyed me was this:

The survey also suggested that parents were starting to realise the extent to which pre-school learning helps later in life.

It found that 74% of adults believed watching educational programmes as a young child helped learning.

Does this not carry the clear inplication that parents who don't think young children should watch TV think that pre-school learningis unimportant? I would argue quite the reverse - it's those parents who value learning who read books or play with their kiddies rather than putting them in front of an "educational" DVD.

Sorry. Rant over.

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