Everyone, not only when in school, needs - time to time - to convert between fractions, decimals, and percentages - in any way.

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...but you can make jokes about it!
My Czech/Music teacher told us once, that he heard there's 1 Chinese person amongst 10 people. As there were 30 students in my class, he concluded "Three of you must be Chinese!" =)
Leave the fact that by following data (quickly checked on google while writing this article) the Chinese world population is around 20%, not 10% (the joke, my teacher made, happened anyway a good few years ago) and let's have a look how could we use statistics besides making jokes thanks to it.

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Since I've moved to the UK, I've been hearing same old thoughts "You're good at maths!" "You can teach A-level!" (I don't even mention I tutor university students, too.) "You have a maths degree!" And after that "You should teach maths! We need maths teachers here!"
Of course, you do. Everyone needs us. But why am I rather a maths tutor and not a maths teacher?

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Woohoo! End of the term! Summer's ahead - six weeks of freedom!
Wait - what? You have a maths tuition next Monday...? Every week? What a nightmare!

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Continuing the thought from last week, I've done a little bit of research. Not much, as the ants in my room (joys of living in rental places - luckily joys of the past, adds Veronika from the future while proofreading ten million years later her baby English... and those are joys of non-native English foreigners)... the ants were bothering me last week way too much to do anything besides thinking how far they can spread. It's not a good excuse, but it's still an excuse.
So let's see the proof first.

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