On: Malawi app 'teaches UK pupils 18 months of maths i...

[guard-of-terra]

Math is not measurable in weeks.

[DanBC → guard-of-terra]

England has a common curriculum so you can measure maths in months. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Curriculum_(England,...

[e12e → DanBC]

The only gripe I have is that they say the kids are using the apps for 30 minutes every day, for six weeks (presumably, that's 5630minutes, not 7630) -- but I don't know how much math kids that age get in school? Is it 45 minutes a day? Every other day?

[desas → e12e]

In general about an hour each day, some days might be 45 minutes. It will vary from school to school and year to year I think.

[lutusp → e12e]

Put spaces around your asterisks, to prevent their other interpretation in HN posts (i.e. markdown italic).

[e12e → lutusp]

Thanks for pointing it out (for posterity, and new users) -- I really do know better, but I always forget, whenever I try to write some math in-line in a comment... now the edit-window for parent was closed.

[e12e → e12e]

Hacker news asterix strikes again, eats multiplication sign.

    5*6*30 minutes vs 7*6*30 ...