Showing posts with label dumbing down. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dumbing down. Show all posts
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
A uniform climate
Go to google, switch to images, type 'weather presenter' in to the search field and then press Search Images. What do you notice about the results?
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.
* Clearly, not at the leading edge of grammar.
Wednesday, 25 February 2009
Perfect Pancakes
I was going to point out how stupid this formula is and how it demeans science but others have done it better than I could so I urge you to read this.
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