This lesson is to give you practice listening to a short talk on the topic of education and teaching mathematics.

Before watching and listening, discuss these questions in your pairs or groups:

  • Did you enjoy studying mathematics at school?
  • Were you good at it, or did you find it difficult?
  • How much can you remember about what you learned?
  • Do you use any of the mathematics you learned in your daily life?
  • Is there anything about numbers you wish you had learned but didn’t?

Before listening, check that you understand the meaning of these words:

Word Part of speech Word Part of speech
implement verb daily basis adjective + noun
curriculum noun discrete adjective
arithmetic noun calculus noun
probability noun statistics noun

As you watch and listen, think about the answer to this question:

Why does the speaker think statistics is a valuable thing to learn?


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