Showing posts with label Rachel Riley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rachel Riley. Show all posts

Tuesday, 26 May 2009

Mathematical Aspirations

The government wants us to value science because "… it creates thousands of jobs that keep Britain at the leading edge."* To help to promote the importance of science it has created a website. It uses some examples of how science can help us do things. Which example do they use to illustrate how mathematics "is the key to our prosperity"? This one.

* Clearly, not at the leading edge of grammar.