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Discouraging Students from Taking Math

Posted by Zonk on from the every-child-left-behind dept.

Coryoth writes "Following on from a previous story about UK schools encouraging students to drop mathematics, an article in The Age accuses Australian schools of much the same. The claim is that Australian schools are actively discouraging students from taking upper level math courses to boost their academic results on school league tables. How widespread is this phenomenon? Are schools taking similar measures in the US and Canada?"

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  1. Re:Math? by stoolpigeon · · Score: 0, Redundant

    sorry - maths

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  2. Re:Math? by Farmer+Tim · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The whole article had that misspelling of math as maths? How could a publisher misspell so badly throughout a whole article like that?

    Because in Australia it is called maths, not math (if you consider that it's short for "mathematics" you'll see the logic).

    We have other spelling differences as well; colour (indicating that it's pronounced differently from "colon"), for example.

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