I despair of the education system.

takman

Pennywise wrote: »

Why would you even need the phone?

Carpets come in fixed widths, typically 3 or 4 metres as shown on the back of the sample and you buy length usually by the metre. (Though some shops do half metre).

So if the extremes between each side of your room is 3.5 metres and the extremes of it's length is 4.5 metres, you round up and you need a carpet of 4 metres wide by 5 metres long, 4 times 5 (simple times tables as per primary school) gives 20 square metres.

Basic primary school maths of rounding up and simple times tables. The basic maths skills aren't the issue. It's finding out the width and length options from the shop and also being able to measure the extremes of your room properly. Even with a calculator, it's garbage in, garbage out, if you don't get the fundamentals right.

If your rounding up your just wasting carpet and paying money you don't need to!. The last time I bought carpet it was around £14.99 a metre off the roll and I needed around 1.9m of it. Now I could have rounded it up to get a rough answer. But it's far easier and just as quick to get an exact answer of how much it is on my phone.

takman

GwylimT wrote: »

Universities have a passmark of 40%.

I'm doing a foundation degree through my workplace and it has a passmark of only 40%!. But I would never be happy with a mark like that. If my average was below 70% I wouldn't be happy!.

missbiggles1

GwylimT wrote: »

I have no idea how to qualify as a teacher in England.

Given that you're a teacher and you give your location as Leeds, it isn't unreasonable that other posters will assume that you're a teacher in England.

GwylimT

takman wrote: »

I'm doing a foundation degree through my workplace and it has a passmark of only 40%!. But I would never be happy with a mark like that. If my average was below 70% I wouldn't be happy!.

I remember only scoring 69.4% in one of my modules, it was as though the world had actually ended! Even worse it meant it was my turn to buy our next keg.

NBLondon

missbiggles1 wrote: »

Given that you're a teacher and you give your location as Leeds, it isn't unreasonable that other posters will assume that you're a teacher in England.

I was guessing by the name that Gwylim is Welsh and teaches/taught in that language. Or that he was a PE teacher :-)


Mind you - my old teacher of English was a Scotsman who like to tease new classes with a wee spelling test - Number one: Moose.


I work in FE (well apprenticeships) , so I'm familiar with the Level 1 and 2 English & Maths you refer to and I am not infrequently astounded by how difficult some candidates find them even when they have just come out of 11 or 12 years of education.