The Secret of Numeracy (across the curriculum)
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns… The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s must be beautiful; the ideas like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test. GH Hardy As some readers will no doubt be aware, I'm no mathematician. It might then seem presumptuous to take a view on the teaching of numeracy, but I think the fact that I'm not naturally numerate gives me a perspective that other, more mathematically minded thinkers might lack. My first, rather trite observation is that numeracy is not [...]