We need to stop pretending that personal finance is hard
From our UK edition
Whilst planning no career change of my own beyond my regular, if fleeting trips to secondary schools to talk about money, I’ve been enjoying reading Lucy Kellaway’s FT updates on her first half term as a maths teacher. Kellaway is well known for her short shrift for maths illiteracy: 'It is not cute. It is stupid, shameful and, if you have any position of responsibility at all, it is dangerous.' Ouch! Similarly, I came across a mathematics teaching blog by Tony Cotton this week. Cotton complained about the stories we tell about maths – that it’s a hard subject, thereby somehow elevating those who do well to an almost unobtainable, elitist status.
