2024:16 The Joy of Maths with Colm O'Regan

The David McWilliams Podcast

David McWilliams

News & Politics

4.6 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This week, we delve into the perennial question: Why do so few students depart school with a genuine love for mathematics? Is the way we teach maths the crux of the issue? Joining us is Colm O'Regan, host of his own Mathematics podcast, to show us the story behind the numbers. Maths, essential across various studies including economics, embodies the evolution of human thought, guiding us from guesswork to certainty - yet is widely loathed by students. It begs the question, does our approach to teaching often lack the engaging storytelling found in other subjects like history and English? Could this be what's hindering students' connections with maths? From the Ishango Bone to Pythagoras, the history of the subject is worth telling, so that's exactly what we're doing.

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1:37.7	and we are going to be talking about the joy, John, of mathematics,
1:39.5	which I know is something... Shivered down my spine, Mac.
1:41.2	Something that I could remember you in school saying, oh, I can't wait for
1:45.5	a quadratic equation. I can't wait for a bit of trigonometry. I can't wait for a bit of Cartesian
1:51.3	mathematics. But we're going to talk about maths and why so few kids finish school with a feeling for mathematics
2:02.9	and why it's such an interesting subject.
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