• Question: Do any of you like maths? If so, what's the highest level of maths that you have studied?

    Asked by 338reah49 to Sam, Rose, Maggi, Kirsty, Ben on 14 Jun 2017.
    • Photo: Rose Turner

      Rose Turner answered on 14 Jun 2017:

      I never thought I was any good at maths – I always thought I was more of a ‘languages and arts’ person (it’s funny how people tend to think they are one or the other, which I don’t think is really true!) I did quite well at GCSE, though I didn’t study it after that. From what I understand, advanced maths can be really amazing. I do statistical analyses now, which involve a lot of numbers, though the computer does most of the maths for me! But I think having an understanding of mathematical formulae really helps with understanding data (and that helps with all sciences).

    • Photo: Kirsty Miller

      Kirsty Miller answered on 14 Jun 2017:

      Hi Ryan! 🙂 I was never great at maths! I studied it to Higher level (which I think in England is the equivalent of A level…). I passed it but didn’t get a great grade, and never found it too easy. I was a bit worried about that because I knew that there was statistics in Psychology but it actually turned out I’m quite good at statistics! For whatever reason I just got it and I’ve ended up teaching statistics which I never thought I’d do! So although I still say I’m not too keen on maths, I seem to do ok at stats!

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