• Question: At my school there is a war between 2 of my favourite teachers. One of them is a year 6 teacher (my teacher) and one of them is a year 3 teacher. The war is about the following question: what is better, science or maths? Who would you vote for and did anything like this happen when you were at school?

    Asked by Unicorn to Dan, Jennifer, Luke, Martin, sakshisharda on 14 Mar 2018.
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      Jennifer Paxton answered on 14 Mar 2018:

      Hmmm… that is a tricky one!! I do prefer science…. but there is an awful lot in science you couldn’t do without maths so…. maybe maths should win? Oh I don’t know – what do you think? Are the school going to vote to see which is the winner?
      Nope, nothing like that happened in my school!

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      Martin Lindley answered on 14 Mar 2018:

      Interesting …by war i assume you mean an academic discussion 🙂

      nothing like that happened when i was at school so i would say you are very lucky 🙂 to experience academic debate in real life.

      Obviously i would sat that math is a very useful tool and without it science would not be possible …so score one for the maths teacher….but …

      maths without science is not very interesting ……

      The science that we do using maths is the interesting and useful and therefore better option 🙂

      So maths scores lots of points but science comes out the winner 🙂

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      Luke Williams answered on 14 Mar 2018:

      There is often a debate about which science is more important, by students of each discipline! This is similar I guess.

      It would be difficult to have one subject without the other, and you can actually say they are the same subject if you look hard enough – there is little difference between some maths and some physics, for example.

      For a personal example, I preferred maths at primary school, and I got to do a lot of maths investigations… which are very similar to scientific investigations…!

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      Dan Gordon answered on 15 Mar 2018:

      An interesting question. I would have say that without maths there would be no science. Maths forms the back ground to everything we do.

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