I've bothered to go to the source and find the bit that enraged the DM headline writers: "There is a greater focus on getting the "right" answer than understanding concepts and reasoni… (View Post)

Yeah, sorry at the patronising tone, I was being an arse. In return, stop posting links from clickbaiters and angry people on the internet. The Daily Mail's interpretation of what is going on within … (View Post)

As others more eloquent than me have said many times, a basic part of the problem is fragility around the word racist. There is a (useful) interpretation of racism that says that maths as a living su… (View Post)

There are a few levels of this conversation going on. I'm not disagreeing with you that Leon should read the links rather than Google them, skim the first line and hurl them at us. I do him the credi… (View Post)

Also, and somewhat tangentially, I take serious issues with "British people don't ask for much really." Lowe proceeds to list a bunch of facets of life in UK that are really quite wonderful… (View Post)