AIBU to wonder why English teachers don't fight Maths teachers?

[GRex]

Every week we get the primary maths homework with questions like:
"What number is 41 less than 54?"

It's like nails down my psychological blackboard. How do the teachers responsible for the English programme cope? Why does nobody take the battle forward for fewer? What is so scary about the maths teachers that none of the rest stand and fight this out for the greater good?

I've got break duty. Thursday?

Deal. We'll get PE to hold our coats.

I'm trying to imagine a fight between my soft brother (English teacher) and his equally gentle wife (maths teacher) 😂

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

🤣

At my school both Ho Maths and Ho English are scrappy AF. I reckon I could sell tickets and run a profitable book.

My DS, now 26, at secondary, they did an experiment in maths (they were testing out whether to switch to the international GCSEs in certain subjects).

So a group sat a standard English one and a corresponding International one. They pretty much all did considerably better at the international one. The school ended up not switching because if I recall correctly, the government at the time decided not to count internationals on the all important league tables or some such?

However, to me their success was obvious:

English: Imran has two rulers one of which is exponentially shorter than Ojanwe's pencil. Using interpretive dance, calculate the cost of Alice's protractor in yen'.

... international:

Solve this equation-

@Fordian - that tells you how easy a maths exam is to pass.
But it doesn't tell us if one group or the other, when faced with a problem, would be able to work out what equation it was they needed to solve.

Maybe our approach to maths is a reason why as a nation we're good at writing software? The computer does the calculations, that's the easy part!