Anything you can do, I can do better. I can do anything better than you

The biggest problem in education is the identification of scores, grades etc obtained in a paper and pencil test/exam with actual skills, practices, competencies in real life contexts.

Smedley's equation: scores \=\ skills.

I was in hospital recently. I constantly came across nurses who said they were no good at maths. In fact not one said they were good at maths.

And yet they were constantly doing some pretty skilled maths at every turn. Blood pressure, temperature, medications, drips, injections, .......

OF COURSE when they said they were no good at maths, they were reflecting on their high school experience and their scores in tests and exams.

The Ministry of education is soon to try and map adults' numeracy skills in Nu Zulun.

What will they use? Paper and pencil tests! What will they find?

For most adults, the maths they do daily is invisible. It is so much a part of every day life.

I offer here today a challenge.  Can anyone find a subject, discipline, or topic that does not involve number or geometry in some way.

If you can, post it in the comments. The first person gets $100 from me. Maybe meditation, so I rule that out.

We are all in some small way mathematicians. Our world is saturated with numbers.