Some People Come Back and Say Thanks!

[charliegolf]

I'm engaged in a couple of thread about education, exams and degrees and such; and mentioned that I'm doing A level Maths. Now I have my views on education, but have been retired from primary headship for a few years. This dropped into my Messenger inbox earlier... Fantastic news from a lovely family. Made my day. Still plenty of nice polite people about.

 

[motorbiking]

You're a head teacher (ex) now studying A level Maths?

 

[charliegolf]

Yes, for enjoyment, keep the one brain cell alive. Had a C in AS last week. Bombed the exam. Decided to resit.

 

[motorbiking]

Jeez - A level Maths is friggin hard, a C (in Y1) is very respectable. Why not just go to Y2 and swap for the full A level, rather than resit? Particularly since you are doing it for fun.

 

[Mottie]

Yes it is nice when parents recognise your efforts. Students too. One of my weirdest ‘presents’ given to me was few years back now when my Asian students found out when my birthday was and they brought in a cake and a hubbly bubbly pipe with all different flavours for me to sample!

 

[charliegolf]

Jeez - A level Maths is friggin hard, a C (in Y1) is very respectable. Why not just go to Y2 and swap for the full A level, rather than resit? Particularly since you are doing it for fun.

Because the fun is in the 'learning of the maths'. The bloke (Maths PhD, friend, former head of Dept) helping me out/tutoring was happy to push on to A2, but was really quite pleased when I said I wasn't satisfied with the mark. (I won't disclose, it will give people strokes!)

 

[conny]

I think a lot of adults may welcome the chance to go back and study a subject, 'just for fun', because now they don't feel the pressure to perform at such a high level. I hated history at school, all those dates, kings, queens, battles etc that you had to remember. These days my wife usually has an audio book going in the background and she listens to historical stuff around the Tudor period. I have learnt more about Henry VI, VII and VIII listening in occasionally than I ever did at school as the audio books are based on historical fact, not fiction.

 

[Justin Passing]

I think a lot of adults may welcome the chance to go back and study a subject, 'just for fun', because now they don't feel the pressure to perform at such a high level. I hated history at school, all those dates, kings, queens, battles etc that you had to remember. These days my wife usually has an audio book going in the background and she listens to historical stuff around the Tudor period. I have learnt more about Henry VI, VII and VIII listening in occasionally than I ever did at school as the audio books are based on historical fact, not fiction.

Absolutely, I enjoy 'rolling things forward'. I have loads of stuff I'll learn "one day".
There are online courses for everything - esp in the US.

Jeez - A level Maths is friggin hard, a C (in Y1) is very respectable.

Try an "S" . Any 3 questions out of 10 iirc. Boggling, at first sight. Do they still have those?

ANY pass at our age is respectable. So much to remember.