Alas, the reality from this time is not so different. My mother went back to college in her 50s to get the maths… sorry… math degree she wanted to do at 18, but was deflected by her school Headteacher (Principle) who said ‘girls can’t do maths’ and pushed her into geography instead. She then taught maths and statistics at what was then a polytechnic (UK technical graduate level institution) now converted to a university. Just before she retired they were setting the pass mark for exams at the mark of the lowest scoring student. No one failed.
Why do you Yanks abbreviate Mathematics to ‘math’ but do not call statistics ‘stat’?
Alas, the reality from this time is not so different. My mother went back to college in her 50s to get the maths… sorry… math degree she wanted to do at 18, but was deflected by her school Headteacher (Principle) who said ‘girls can’t do maths’ and pushed her into geography instead. She then taught maths and statistics at what was then a polytechnic (UK technical graduate level institution) now converted to a university. Just before she retired they were setting the pass mark for exams at the mark of the lowest scoring student. No one failed.
Why do you Yanks abbreviate Mathematics to ‘math’ but do not call statistics ‘stat’?