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Letters: How to Do Woke Maths

Madam: When I went to school, many years ago, we had “add ups”, “take aways”, and multiplication and division—none of the woke rubbish kids have to endure today. Here is my version of a modern classroom, a test from the new maths syllabus, according to woke:  In 1788, Britain invaded Australia with a fleet of convicts. One convict was assigned one acre of land to grow wheat, another convict was assigned 3 acres of land to grow turnips, and another convict was assigned 5 acres of land to keep 3 goats on.  Question: How many acres of Australia was stolen from the Aborigines?  …

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