I received the instructions this week from the community project school where I will be volunteering as a teacher. I have learnt that the Khmer culture requires modesty, and in addition teachers are highly respected in Cambodia, and must dress in an appropriately dignified way – and in particular must not display shoulders, knees or…
Month: June 2016
Getting to grips with maths
The last time I did any maths was a GCSE in 1991- and I mean real maths, not splitting a bill, checking my change or counting children on school trips. But even these things are done using my own idiosyncratic method and I don’t show my working. So I probably wouldn’t get any marks for…