It’s early in the year, perilously close to the “Worst Day of the Year”, and already we’ve been gifted a story in which a junior academic has earned publicity for himself with a pointlessly promotional maths paper.
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Maths-Whizz in the Daily Telegraph
January 8th, 2010
With the snow still here, there, and everywhere (if no longer deep and thick and even) why not wander over to the excellent Telegraph education pages, and check out our maths whizz bannerette, featured on a couple of pages, such as this one:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/6943166/Ofsted-stigmatising-schools-say-MPs.html
Even better, click the image, sign up to Whizz and give your child an educational boost with our top maths tutor during the cold winter months.
Get them early
October 21st, 2008Children destined for wealth, health, and happiness in adult life can be spotted at five, if a new University of London study is anything to go by.
The Daily Telegraph reports the study:
Predictions of adult poverty are now so accurate that up to nine in 10 youngsters destined for a lifetime of disadvantage can be spotted and helped before they leave primary school, it says.
Even a simple copying test that gauges a child’s ability to replicate shapes and patterns at the age of five is an extremely accurate predictor of later success in school and early adulthood according to the study, by the Institute of Education at the University of London.