{"id":903,"date":"2011-06-30T08:29:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T08:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/?p=903"},"modified":"2012-02-09T09:21:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T09:21:34","slug":"numb-or-numbered-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2011\/06\/30\/numb-or-numbered-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Numb or Numbered? Part 2."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in April \u2014 it seems so long ago now \u2014 I <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2011\/04\/14\/numb-or-numbered\/\">wrote<\/a> about the problems created in university life science courses by the relatively low uptake of maths by the student intake.<\/p>\n<p>It provoked a very long and thoughtful discussion, both beneath the blog post and in email exchanges that I had with many of my colleagues. I am extremely grateful to everyone who took part. That debate about how we should go about inculcating a profitable acquaintance with other mathematical tools among students really helped to inform my views, which I have now updated in a piece published in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/story.asp?sectioncode=26&amp;storycode=416629&amp;c=1\">Times Higher Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The publication date now looks very timely, since it comes just the day after Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Education, made an important <a href=\"http:\/\/www.education.gov.uk\/inthenews\/speeches\/a00191729\/michael-gove-speaks-to-the-royal-society-on-maths-and-science\">speech<\/a> about the government&#8217;s plans for mathematics education. From a quick first read, there&#8217;s much good sense in Gove&#8217;s remarks. Or at least there are decent aspirations.\u00a0But it&#8217;s one thing to make a speech or write an article on a blog or in a newspaper. Making change happen on the ground is where the real hard work has to start.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in April \u2014 it seems so long ago now \u2014 I wrote about the problems created in university life science courses by the relatively low uptake of maths by the student intake. It provoked a very long and thoughtful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2011\/06\/30\/numb-or-numbered-part-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,6,19],"tags":[324,156,157],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maths","category-science","category-science-politics","tag-maths","tag-numeracy","tag-times-higher-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}