Arithmetic in Everyday Life
From Broadcast for Schools.co.uk.co.uk
companyBBC
started12th Jul
1943
ended16th Jul
1943
1 school year
episodes5
duration20 mins
subject
📐Mathematics
age rangeAge 13-16
languageenIn English
Arithmetic in Everyday Life is a BBC schools radio series from the 1940s, covering maths for secondary school pupils.
- A similar experimental series to 1942's Games with Numbers, intended for older pupils of 13-14.
- Each of the first four programmes began with a five-minute diagnostic test on, in turn, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, for which listeners required pencil and paper. Teachers were instructed to use the results of these tests to identify individual pupils' weak points.
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