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| The Telegraph Editorial 9th July 2013 |
Ironically, it is the urgency to score in mathematics that prevents students and teachers from exploring the wonders of the subject, writes Devi Kar.
It is only after leaving school that I got to know that Florence Nightingale was not just the ‘Lady with the Lamp’. She was also the first woman to become a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. During the Crimean War, she used to prepare and present accurate data of casualties in the form of tables and diagrams. What an inspiring story this could be for schoolgirls, of a woman who was a nurse, a social reformer and a statistician. Alas, most mathematics teachers who teach in high school say that they neither have the time nor the inclination to tell stories in class.
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