Maths idea just doesn’t add up
Teach First, the company which finds teachers for deprived secondary schools, is attempting to lure disillusioned investment bankers from their jobs to teach maths to struggling kids. It sounds great in theory but could backfire in practice. Because a former investment banker’s method of solving maths questions might be slightly different from a traditional teacher’s.
Take this question for example: “If a company took £100billion from its UK customers, gambled it all in very risky markets and lost every penny through their own criminal greed, how much money would it have left?”
Teacher’s answer: Nothing. Banker’s answer: All £100billion because the taxpayers would bail them out.