Sunak is talking the talk, but not walking the walk

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Maths is Rishi Sunak’s passion and good for him, but without the necessary expansion of teachers his promises don’t add up (PA Wire)

I read Roisin O’Connor’s column with interest and she is right: maths can work when it is correlated to a specific issue, as with her pub calculations. As someone who felt distinctly nauseous when viewing your maths quiz and suffered disturbed vision, with all those black-and-white questions with unequivocal answers and no blagging, I gave up at the first mathematical hurdle.

But O’Connor makes valid points; making maths more relevant to young people’s everyday lives as opposed to just giving them abstract calculations could help swing the balance. Maths is Rishi Sunak’s passion and good for him, but to come out with all these Pi R squares without the necessary expansion of maths teachers is somewhat nonsensical and doesn’t add up.

So yes, he is talking the talk but not walking the walk. How this can be achieved is yet another unsolvable equation, but it sounded good at the time!