Voices
Why must everyone be forced to do maths?
May I make some remarks in response to Ronel Klatzkin’s How to master anxiety about maths in the 17 January edition of the SA Jewish Report? I have been a maths teacher/town planner in my time. Like Klatzkin, my school experience of maths was abysmal. My favourite subjects were English, Latin, and History. Our maths master was an arrogant bully, and we had an aversion to one another. Fortunately for me, in my matric year (1955), I had a master who showed me that I could prove riders!