From the good ol’ BBC. Looks like our old friend the Straw Man has not only come out for the election, but gone back to school:
“At the moment, you could be fantastic at algebra, but not really able to calculate the area of a room. And clearly we’ve got to change that,” says Education Secretary Ruth Kelly.
If Ms Kelly is able to find and display one such person I shall be most surprised.
area = length * depth
Looks a lot like algebra to me. Very, very simple algebra. Stop making people up, Ms Kelly! You have enough problems with the real students.