From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 374 invoked from network); 24 Dec 2021 21:05:35 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 24 Dec 2021 21:05:35 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 0DCFD9CF2F; Sat, 25 Dec 2021 07:05:31 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFA039CC01; Sat, 25 Dec 2021 07:05:03 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id B15A29CC01; Sat, 25 Dec 2021 07:05:01 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 421 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Sat, 25 Dec 2021 07:05:00 AEST Received: from clarinet.employees.org (clarinet.employees.org [198.137.202.74]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A74669465C for ; Sat, 25 Dec 2021 07:05:00 +1000 (AEST) Received: by clarinet.employees.org (Postfix, from userid 1736) id BDB214E11B56; Fri, 24 Dec 2021 20:57:58 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2021 20:57:58 +0000 From: Derek Fawcus To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org Message-ID: References: <818A6F70-D117-471A-9E08-E37B34F8FAE0@mac.com> <20211223021805.GK24180@mcvoy.com> <20211223141958.GR24180@mcvoy.com> <20211223160011.GS24180@mcvoy.com> <3915e4db-6740-9777-03f4-4c6b4c09045c@csp-partnership.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <3915e4db-6740-9777-03f4-4c6b4c09045c@csp-partnership.co.uk> Subject: Re: [TUHS] Photos of University Computer Labs - now off topic X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 04:28:26PM +0000, Dr Iain Maoileoin wrote: > > 50 years ago our (Scottish) schooling used only Arithmetic for the basic > number manipulation.  About 10-15 years ago maffs became the name.  I > dont know how the transition occured with us. Schools?  or Media??  > Perhaps we have just imported the name from the good old US of A ;-) Or more likely from England? I can recall my parents and grandparents referring to the "Three R's", so at some point we would have called it Arithmetic. I don't recall what we called it in Primary School, when simply doing addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and handing of fractions (i.e. rationals) including 'vulgar fractions'. However once at Middle School, the lessons were definitly called maths, and covered other fields (e.g. logariths). The O-level and A-level papers in High School were all in maths. At O-level Mathematics, at A-level Pure Mathematics & Applied Mathematics (the latter at the time with distinct Statistics and/or Mechanics lessons / papers). So that is at least the mid 70s. (For folks outwith the UK, the Scottish and English school systems are distict, and always have been) DF