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Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 23, 2003, 12:25
En réponse à Chris Bates :

>I first encountered complex numbers at 16 doing A level Maths and >Further Maths in England. Surely last year of High School is 17/18?
Depends on your date of birth. Most people end High School at 17 in France. I ended it at 18, but that's because I'm born in March. But anyone who is born from July to December ends up (normally) High School at 17. Also, it seems that what you had special classes of Maths. We don't have that in France. Maths is a basic cursus, and identical for everyone. There are no options to go further or anything (but there are no options to do less maths either, unless you're in a completely different cursus).
> BTW, >I may be wrong but doesn't the french school teaching of Mathematics >focus on geometry rather than algebra.
You're wrong. The main focus of French Maths teaching is algebra and nothing else. Only in primary school is geometry important. As soon as you get to Junior High, you learn Cartesian coordinates and such, and finally vectors, and algebra and geometry become one and the same thing. But the focus is extremely strongly on algebra.
> I read that somewhere without >explanation, I would love to read a detailed description of how French >and English schools teach maths for comparison.
Well, since I don't know how English schools teach Maths, I cannot help you here ;)) . But in France, Maths teaching is monolithic: everyone is taught exactly the same until the end of Junior High, and afterwards everyone in the same cursus is taught the same. There are no options to learn more or less in maths. It's considered a vital subject and as such must be taught identically to everyone in the same cursus, just like History and Geography. Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

Replies

Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...>
Chris Bates <christopher.bates@...>The English School System
Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>The English School System