Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?

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.

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