{"id":1305,"date":"2008-08-09T15:11:27","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T07:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2009-01-03T09:01:25","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T01:01:25","slug":"changing-peoples-lives-with-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/changing-peoples-lives-with-math-1305","title":{"rendered":"Changing people’s lives - with math"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following mail came today from Sephie, a reader on a small island off Europe. She talks about how valuable the Interactive Mathematics site is for her daughter, who learns mathematics via home schooling.<\/p>\n

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Congratulations on creating a beautiful site with a clarity of instruction rarely found elsewhere. Must say I agree with all the testimonials<\/a>, and would like to add my own.<\/p>\n

I’m on a smallish island off Europe home-educating my daughter. We’re pretty isolated here and have to rely on books and the internet to get her through maths (and this year, further maths AS and A2 exams).<\/p>\n

As you’ll know, having knowledge about a subject doesn’t automatically make one a good teacher, so to find someone like you who is both gifted and willing to share what he knows on the net provides help for my daughter in a very tangible way.<\/p>\n

As we’re poor as church mice it means a great deal, and we will be relying on your site to help my daughter through the next two years. It’s simply the best we’ve encountered in many years of searching.<\/p>\n

She hopes to study maths at university. If she succeeds she will be able to escape the poverty trap she was born into.<\/p>\n

So I just wanted to let you know that your generosity in creating such a unique site will actually help to change someone’s life.<\/p>\n

I also hope that your considerable talents as a teacher are fully recognised in your present occupation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Thank you so much for taking the time to write, Sephie.<\/p>\n

I wish your daughter all the best in her endeavours. It is very gratifying to know that my efforts may help someone to ‘escape the poverty trap’.<\/p>\n

See the 2 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I received a delightful mail today from a lady who lives on an isolated island off Europe. She finds Interactive Mathematics a really valuable resource for teaching her daughter mathematics and for escaping the poverty trap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}