(on the mat)hematics

Politicians are brilliant and often they come out with such masterpieces - ---------------------- All maths and no play makes Jack a poor sportsman. Solution: Junk the numbers and hit the playground. This is what a top bureaucrat in the sports ministry wants enshrined in the national school curriculum. ---------------------- Agreed that Maths is the most-feared subject of all, and eats up a major chunk of a students time. ---------------------- With Commonwealth Games round the corner, the ministry of sports and youth affairs has written to education policy-makers, seeking ways of promoting the sporting ethic and one suggestion is that time given to mathematics be swapped with playing games. ---------------------- Couldn't they have come up with a lesser extreme step than making it optional.. lower the difficulty, reduce the scope, change the teaching pattern , blah blah; but no, appeasement and that too by such insane 'deeds' is the trademark of politicians... Complete story - here